1/7 The Handbook of Rational Emotive Behaviour Counseling to Reduce Senior High School Students ’s Burnout Ikke Yuliani Dhian Puspitarini 1 , Rosalia Dewi Nawantara 2 , Galang Surya Gumilang 3 {ikkeydp@unpkediri.ac.id 1 , rosaliadewi@unpkediri.ac.id 2 , galang_konselor@unpkediri.ac.id 3 } Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri, Jl. KH. Ahmad Dahlan No. 76 Mojoroto Kediri Jawa Timur Indonesia Abstract. The burnout’s phenomenon is experienced by many students on a full day school system. High School students who are on the task of adolescent development, often experience various conflicts and are vulnerable to experiencing stress. If prolonged will cause burnout. Burnout is a syndrome of physical and emotional exhaustion, feelings of depersonalization and a lack of respect for self-quality. Help efforts are needed to reduce burnout with cognitive-based counseling. One of the guidance and counseling media that can be used is a rational-emotive-behavior-based counseling package, which aims to enable individuals to change their beliefs to be rational. Disputing is one technique that can be used to identify and change the counselee's irrational beliefs that cause burnout. This counseling package includes stages with several techniques from Rational Emotive Behavior Counseling. This article discusses theoretical studies and the relationship between research variables with phenomena in the field, and not yet on research results. Keywords: Rational emotive behaviour counseling’s handbook; burnout. 1 Introduction Full day school which has been implemented in the last few years has had a positive influence on students, including intensive study time at school and teachers have plenty of time to educate students' character. But besides that, full day school also has a negative impact on students' psychology. Learning activities at school with a period of between 8 hours every day will make students experience burnout. In accordance with Yudi's opinion (2018) which states that full day school requires children to be in school from 07.00 WIB to 16.00 WIB to study it is feared that it can make children bored with learning and even make it difficult for children to catch lessons. The results of research by Sugara (2011: 97) regarding burnout experienced by students of Angkasa Bandung High School showed that it was 15.32% in the high category. Based on the burnout aspect, it was obtained a percentage of 12.61% of students experiencing burnout in the emotional exhaustion dimension; 14.41% of students experienced burnout in the depersonalization dimension; 14.41% of students experienced burnout in the dimension of decreasing academic confidence. The results of the study also revealed that students experienced burnout due to the large number of assignments and too long learning time. High school students who are in adolescent development tasks, often experience various conflicts and are prone to experiencing stress. Adolescents who have poor stress