THE USE OF SELF-INFORMATION AND ENVIRONMENT IN COUNSELING PROCESS

1University of Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya, Faculty of Education, Indonesia. *email: mfatchurahman789@gmail.com Abstrak Counseling as one of the forms and techniques of assistance provided by schools in the context of implementing overall guidance, this is given to help students in their efforts to solve all problems. The availability of this information makes it easy for students to obtain the information needed for example to implement a decision, want to know about something both in terms of themselves and their environment. The use of self and environmental information in the counseling process occurs in the creation of rapport, in exploring, discovering the real problem, exploring and studying alternative problem solving, decision making, implementation of decisions taken and in evaluation and follow-up. Therefore the information used must meet the requirements: that is, careful and not prejudiced, up to date, comprehensive and available information sources. In addition to the above conditions, the principles of time saving, non-authoritarian and feedback are also taken into account, so that this can cause self and environmental information in the counseling process to be very important material for both the counselor and the client.


Preliminary
Counseling is one form and technique of assistance provided by schools in the context of implementing overall guidance so that educational goals can be achieved.
Therefore, in terms of objectives, counseling services are the same as guidance which is to help students, so in the implementation of counseling also required self and environmental information, both for counseling and for clients. For counselors, the availability of self and environmental information is a very useful material.
Especially for the acceptance and understanding of the client he helped, to facilitate the next counseling process because acceptance and a good understanding of the client will create intimacy. Hoping counselors provide assistance that suits the needs of the clients.
For the client himself, the availability of self and environmental information will help him understand himself objectively and realistically. If the individual is able to understand themselves objectively, then he will be able to determine goals and life plans realistically. Thus he will be able to develop optimally in accordance with his potential so that happiness and satisfaction can be achieved.
Besides the things stated above, in terms of work efficiency, the availability of information is very helpful for the guidance officers because the time available for conducting counseling is very limited and there is no specific time available to carry out at school. Berdie, et al (Lacksana & Nuryono, 2016) who stated that if the counselor wants to carry out effective guidance activities or do any work with students (counselees), then he must know everything that is in his students (counselee). More information is known about the counselee, so he will be able to work better with the counselee.

Types of self and environmental information.
The scope or types of self and environmental information relating to self, family and environment according to Djumhur and Surya (1975)

B. Use of Personal and Environmental
Information in the Counseling Process in Schools.

The role of self and environmental information in the counseling process at school.
The role of information is to convey self-information about various matters relating to themselves and the environment around him, as the reciprocity for himself, his family and others. At the time of counseling, the counselor takes at least a number of steps such as: creating rapport, exploration, problem assessment, exploring and assessing alternative problems implementing the decision and evaluation and follow-up in the cognitive-oriented counseling process. The role of information itself in the counseling process, according to Partowisastro (1984) is as follows: (a) helps the client's self-understanding, (b) helps find the real problem, (c) helps assess alternatives, (d) helps decision making, (e) ) help implement the decision. In addition to the five roles above, Tyler (1976) also suggested two more roles, namely helping to create report cards and assisting with evaluation and follow-up.
From the two opinions above, it can be concluded that the role of self and environmental information will appear in:  6. How to use information to help explore and explore and study alternatives.
After the problem and its causes have been found, then the next is how to solve the problem. To find a solution to that problem, you need to find ways. This is called an alternative assessment or assessment stage. In assessing these alternatives is to help the counselor and client. In a way the client and counselor consider each alternative to be taken based on information. The use of information in the counseling process aims to bring the client to his choices, decisions and life plans.
The use of information is two, one of which is to formulate alternatives that the basis for the formulation of alternatives is the result of exploration (Munandir, 1976). The counseling process is an aid to solving problems faced by students.  (Pietrofesa, 1978). Therefore the ability to make decisions should be realized in the form of real activities .
This opinion suggests that to make a decision the client must have a good and  Follow-up is carried out after the evaluation process above has been completed, because the basis for the implementation of further actions is the results of the evaluation. The method is based on information on the results of the evaluation and the causes of failure, then the follow-up can be formulated better and more thoroughly.

Conclusion
Counseling is the core of the guidance activities at school. The counseling service itself is the process of providing assistance to the individual so that he is able to solve the problems encountered so as to achieve a decent and happy life. The main function of counseling is curative and / or corrective, although counseling can also be preventive and perseverative.