(28/08/2019) Lecturer of Guidance and Counseling, Faculty of Education and Education, Ahmad Dahlan University held a Community Service Program (PPM) with the theme Enhancing the Ability of Guidance and Counseling Teachers in Preparing a Research Proporal for Guidance and Counseling Action. Program participants are guidance and counseling teachers at Muhammadiyah Middle Schools (SMP / SMA / SMK) in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region. The number of participants who attended was 28 participants.

This program is designed because of the initiation due to the teacher’s problem that the teacher only pursues research reports, but does not necessarily design or plan research (proportional) from the start of the problem. This program was initiated by guidance and counseling lecturers. The speakers for this program are Agus Supriyanto, M.Pd., Agungbudiprabowo, M.Pd., and Drs. Purwadi, M.Si., Ph.D. This program is also assisted by the Head of the Professional Teacher Education Study Program, Ahmad Dahlah University, namely Dr. Sri Hartini, M.Pd. Implementation of the program in August 2019 for 1 month.

The material for this program includes knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of Guidance and Counseling Action Research or abbreviated as PTBK. Then proceed with the material of Improving the Ability to Compose Introduction from problem identification, formulating problems, research objectives, knowing research variables, compiling background problems, and research benefits. The next stage, the teacher learns to compile a theoretical study with the help of Google Scholar as a reference. Then the teacher learns to compile research methods and research instruments as a basis for self-development. Finally, the teacher studies and compiles scientific publications in the form of scientific ideas from proposals. The results that have been compiled have been presented by the teacher as self-evaluation. This program impacts the ability of teachers to be able to design guidance and counseling action research proposals and applications in schools.

(7/2/2020) Study Program Guidance and Counseling FKIP UAD represented by Amien Wahyudi, M.Pd. Organizing community service that is carried out in the village hall of the Cowelo Kidul hamlet, Candirejo Village, Semanu District, Gunung Kidul Regency. This activity was held in conjunction with the UAD Student Community Service Program in the village, which was attended by 30 women from Gebang, Cuwelu Kidul and Soka hamlets. The high level of problems that occur in the family makes the family vulnerable to emotional problems. Seeing this phenomenon, lecturers of UAD BK study program held a counseling activity with the theme Family Resilience. It is hoped that with this theme, the public, especially mothers, will know how important family resilience is to the formation of individual personalities because research shows that low resilience families are prone to making individuals experience emotional disorders such as anxiety, low self-esteem and even acts of aggression.

(31/12/2020) Lecturers of the Study Program Guidance and Counseling Universitas Ahmad Dahlan carry out community service in the form of basic leadership training in the Akademi Kebidanan Mulia Madani Yogyakarta for the Academic Year 2020/2021. This activity was carried out at the Akademi Kebidanan Mulia Madani in Yogyakarta. This activity was attended by 35 students who are members of the Student Executive Board (BEM) of the Akademi Kebidanan Mulia Madani. Leadership skills are basic skills that need to be possessed in organizations. On this occasion, Ulfa Danni Rosada, M.Pd. as a lecturer representative for the guidance and counseling study program provided material with the theme “Leadership Mental Health”. It is hoped that from these activities students will have a clearer understanding of several leadership styles and evaluate themselves to identify the type of leadership each student has. The training also emphasized that a leader needs to have mental health by being a leader with character, high integrity, upholding morals and norms that apply in society and having responsibility.