Konseling Individu dengan Pendekatan Logotherapy dalam Meningkatkan Makna Hidup pada Warga Binaan Pemasyarakatan di Lapas Kelas IIB Probolinggo

Abstract

Life as a prisoner is a significant type of life, a person who faces that life has no choice in acknowledging the situation he is in. In general, if someone is in detention, they must feel worried, hopeless, anxious, miserable, from this it can be concluded that they are crossing doubts in their lives. The incident experienced by law violators was initially a person entered in a Correctional Institution (LAPAS) but in the long term they were able to adjust to their situation and even accept the situation and the mistakes they had made. So the author provides individual counseling with a logotherapy approach which aims to increase the meaning of life for the inmates at the Class IIB Probolinggo prison. Logotherapy is a theoretical approach from Frankl, namely by understanding the meaning of life (the meaning of life) and the desire for a meaningful life (the will of meaning a main motivation to achieve a meaningful life).The research method used in this study uses the method qualitative research through a descriptive approach by collecting information about the conditions and situations at the time the research was carried out.The results of the research at the Class IIB Probolinggo Correctional Institution (LAPAS) which contained individual counseling in increasing the meaning of life of inmates in prison using a logotherapy approach, the researchers found 2 inmates who caught in the same case, namely drugs with different backgrounds in meaning of life, two inmates who have the same case but have different meanings of life so that they cannot find a way how to interpret life. real dup. Living with limited mobility makes them feel like they don't have the energy to live life. According to a source from an interview with Mrs. Rinda as an employee at the Probolingo Correctional Institution on duty at the BAPAS Post, she said that most of the inmates have not been able to accept the conditions they face, are still experiencing mental shock, they feel helpless to face life in a correctional institution, feel guilty, blame live, have a negative view of the future, and are unable to explore the true meaning of life when they have to serve a sentence in a correctional institution, they feel constrained because they are far from the love of those closest to them.