MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION OF INDONESIAN STUDENTS IN AMID PANDEMIC COVID-19, DO THEY NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP?

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic is not yet sure when it will end. The impact on education is the government's policy to implement monitored online/offline learning modes. For students this makes them feel uncertain, his study examined the mental health of Indonesian students in the Covid-19 pandemic situation. A number of students were recruited to become respondents using the snowball sampling technique. The researcher contacted the teachers at schools in Jakarta Indonesia. The teacher contacts students who are willing to fill out the instrument. collected 397 participants who are high school students. The instrument used was the Counselling Centre Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS), Indonesia version They completed the CCAPS-Indonesia along with several carefully selected scales. In CCAPS there are eight forms of mental health disorders that are assessed, namely depression, general anxiety, social anxiety, academic distress, eating concern, family distress, hostility and substance. The results have shown that in general students do not experience serious mental health disorders, the highest symptoms are social anxiety and academic stress. It seems that restrictions on social activities and ways of learning that have not been fixed have caused students in Jakarta to experience mental health problems, thus requiring professional help. In addition, there needs to be clarity regarding the learning mode that will be implemented.