PENERAPAN PSIKOEDUKASI KELOMPOK SEBAGAI UPAYA PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN ORANG TUA DALAM MENSTIMULASI PERKEMBANGAN INISIATIF ANAK PRASEKOLAH PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19 DI KELURAHAN BURING KOTA MALANG

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused learning activities to be carried out at home.
Pre-school age enters the initiative stage and requires a lot of stimulation to
optimize it. Parents are less able to stimulate because they tend to surrender
to the teacher. Lack of initiative development stimulation causes children not
to cope with greater stress at the developmental stage and it becomes a bigger
mental health problem for children. This goal is to apply psychoeducation to
increase the independence of parents in developing early school initiatives
during the Covid-19 pandemic. The activity was carried out from November to
December 2020 with the target of activities as many as 32 parents in the Malang
area of Indonesia. Participants were divided into 3 groups to participate in 3 sessions, session 1 brainstorming and identifying problems, session 2 stimulating
the development of initiatives, and session 3 evaluating and sharing
experiences. After 2 sessions of activity, the ability of parents experienced an
increase in the average ability to stimulate the development of initiative from
44.19 to 55.84 points. This therapeutic activity has increased the knowledge and
ability of people to develop their child's psychosocial. Thus, the role of parents
increases in learning at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.