Bibliotherapy with the Career Topic to Increase the Student's Career Motivation of Guidance and Counseling

This research was aimed to investigate the influence of bibliotherapy with the career topic on the increase of the student's career motivation of Guidance and Counseling. This research employed Classroom Action Research (CAR) based on research method by Kemmis and McTaggart model and conducted in one cycle. The data were collected by observation, interview, documentation and questionnaire.The data from observation and interview were analyzed in a descriptive qualitative way, while the data resulted from the questionnaires were analyzed quantitatively.The qualitative result showed that bibliotherapy within career topic leads the students to have the positive change of expression, gesture and self confidence to become a counselor in the future. Quantitatively, bibliotherapy was effective to increase students’ career motivation, which was measured by questionnaire test.The highest increase of the questionnaire test was revealed on career motivation aspect which means that the bibliotherapy treatment has succeeded in enhancing the knowledge and utility of the text book for counseling. Therefore, it can be concluded that the bibliotherapy within career topic could be developed to overcome the career problems, especially career motivation.