The Development of Training Curriculum on Counseling for Monks Based on Buddhist Psychology

Abstract

          Due to the epidemic situation in the past, the monks have encountered more problems in coming to consult the Buddhist's life problems, both from their personal lives, family, children, or the economy, society and politics, but the monks cannot There is a tool to communicate the dharma to Buddhist in an ingenious way, so attaching a tool called Buddhist psychology counseling will give the monks a weapon in the dialogue with Buddhist. This research article aims to develop a curriculum that includes experiments and study problems, obstacles, and suggestions for the monk training course in counselling and Buddhist psychology concepts. By studying according to the research and development process, The researcher has carried out the research into four steps: research, development, research and development. Population in this research is 30 monks who participated in the training course in 4 groups (divided according to the administration of the Sangha), totaling 120 monks by selecting a purposive sample. The research tools were used Training Curriculum on Counseling  for Monks Based on Buddhist Psychology, Concepts Test before and after training, Behavior observation Form and Questionnaire on attitudes towards using the curriculum. Statistics  used in  the  research  were  1) t-test (Dependent), 2) average, and 3) standard deviation. The results of the research are the results of curriculum preparation. Contains the following contents: Basic understanding of counselling focusing on listening skills, self-disclosure skills, Skills in questioning specific helping skills, such as understanding others' perspectives, Showing attentiveness and listening, Summarizing and reflecting on feelings and the process of counselling or counselling procedures The results of the trial of the curriculum found that in every administration, monks had higher knowledge and understanding than before the training. There was an improvement of 75% in every content. There was a high level of satisfaction with the curriculum. Furthermore, it has an excellent assessment of the activities during the training with the opinion that compelling hot topic wants to add time, especially adding more listening techniques And would like to have pictures or examples of the process to use step by step in order actually to work.