www.tjprc.org editor@tjprc.org INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING STRATEGY SOCIAL-BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXPERIENCING LEARNING DIFFICULTIES ANISA MAWARNI & AMDANI SARJUN Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia The research is an awardee of Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP). The research is supported by LPDP ABSTRACT Learning difficulties are part of a major obstacle to successful learning. The learning process is not always successful, often there are things that resulted in learning difficulties experienced by students. The results of various studies toward high students who have difficulty in learning at the age of high school become a challenge that must be solved by every educator, especially teachers of guidance and counseling in the field of learning. This study aims to determine the level of learning difficulty of students and develop service strategies in the settlement as one of the effective service strategies. The results showed 83% of students in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, enter into the high category of experiencing learning difficulties. Individual counseling services strategy is one of the solutions in solving problems of student learning difficulties with in-depth analysis. KEYWORDS: Learning Difficulties, Learning in the Age of High School & Difficulties with in-Depth Analysis Received: Mar 20, 2018; Accepted: Apr 10, 2018; Published: Apr 23, 2018; Paper Id.: IJESRJUN20182 INTRODUCTION Successful learning is the dream for every learner (Indreicaa, Cazanb, & Truta, 2011). Learning is a process of change in the human personality that appears in terms of improving the quality and quantity of behaviors such as the improvement of skills, knowledge, attitudes, habits, understanding, skills, thinking power, and other abilities. Some students can take their teaching and learning activities smoothly and successfully without experiencing difficulty, but on the other hand not a few students who actually in their learning experience various difficulties. Student learning difficulties are indicated by the presence of certain obstacles to achieve learning outcomes and can be psychological, sociological, and physiological so that in the end may lead to the achievement of learning they achieved is below the proper (Shah, 2000, Daryanto, 2010). The learning process is not always successful, often there are things that result in the failure or difficulty of learning experience by students. Challenges, obstacles and even demands in learning are always present in everyday learners (Dwyer & Cummings, 2001). Learners experience high difficulty in each semester (Robotham, 2008), get depressed about the burden of learning task (Reisberg, 2000), difficulty preparing for exams (Karagiannopoulou & Kamtsios, 2016), feelings of anxiety and fear of failure (Gibbons, 2015; Kamtsios & Karagiannopoulou 2015; Schafer, 1996; Tyrrel, 1992) low time management (Robotham, 2008), and low-motivation learning (Tyrrel, 1992). Teacher of Guidance and Counseling as a guide to analyzing the learning difficulties to determine the factors of Original Article International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) ISSN (P): 2249-6947; ISSN (E): 2249-8052 Vol. 8, Issue 3, Jun 2018, 7-12 © TJPRC Pvt Ltd.