The Effectiveness of Group Counseling with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in Reducing Student Anxiety in Facing Exams

The background of this research is based on the anxiety problems that often occur in students when facing an exam. This can be seen taking exams‚ experience symptoms such as cold sweats‚ tremors‚ sleeping difficulty exam day near. Efforts made dealing with challenge are group counseling using a rational emotive behavior therapy approach. aims to see effectiveness approach reducing students. study uses experimental design pretest and post-test control design. subjects were SMAN 13 Padang. Padang, who revealed sixteen high moderate categories. instrument used face test Likert scale. population seven samples 7 group. technique Purposive sampling technique. data analyzed Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test Kolmogorov Smirnov 2 Independent Sample help SPSS version 20.00. results indicate effectively reduces students' exams.