Guidance and Counseling Challenges in the Millennial Era

Abstract

Guidance and Counseling is an integral part of education which has a very important task in the developmental tasks of students. Entering the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 which will be filled by generation Z or what is known as the millennial generation, of course there are many complex challenges that will be faced. Guidance and Counseling is expected to play an important role in helping students to face these challenges. This article will describe how the role of Guidance and Counseling is in helping the millennial generation to face challenges in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. The purpose of this research is to find out the challenges of guidance and counseling in the millennial era faced by counselors. The research method used is a qualitative literature study. Library research can be interpreted as activities related to methods of collecting library data, reading and storing and processing research materials. The results of this study indicate that the problems that occur in schools with the delinquent behavior of students in the millennial era, namely 1) Delinquency that causes physical victims. 2) Student delinquency which causes material casualties. 3) Delinquency that affects the students themselves, and 4) Delinquency denial of status. Then the factors that cause delinquency in the millennial era can occur due to family problems, the community environment which provides negative examples, the lack of understanding of students' religion, the low economy of peer association, the influence of social media and the failure of students in terms of their education. This is one of the challenges for guidance and counseling teachers when dealing with students in the millennial era.