“…This has been proven in several previous studies, which revealed that the use of group counseling could decrease students' academic stress (Putrikita & Sari, 2020;Koçak & Çelik, 2022). Group counseling could be done using a range of techniques and approaches to address academic stress, such as self-instruction techniques (Mardianti & Dharmayana, 2020), reality-oriented approaches (Fadhlaturrahmah, 2021), stress inoculation (Sriatun et al, 2023), snake ladderbased group counseling (Novaliany, 2022), self-management techniques (Vania et al, 2019), and self-control techniques (Andriati & Hidayati, 2021), among others.…”