Anaysis of Delinquency Behavior in Adolescents and the Prevention By Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Counseling Netrawati Guidance and Counseling Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia netrawatiunp07@gmail.com Yeni Karneli Guidance and Counseling Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia yenikarneli.unp@gmail.com Firman Guidance and Counseling Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia firman@konselor.org Yarmis Syukur Guidance and Counseling Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia yarmissyukur@yahoo.co.id Abstract: This research is done because there are some problems in adolescents at school related with the task development. The successful adolescent development is characterized by a good self-identity and behavior, but not all adolescents have them and for them who got failed in the task development show delinquency behavior. This research is done to help the problems which happen at school and society. This study becomes important remembering adolescents are the nation’s relay who will be the heirs of the nation, if adolescents are in the bad condition, this nation will be destroyed. This study is aimed to prevent delinquency behavior in adolescents by using cognitive behavioral therapy. The research design used Research and development (R&D). It is conducted on students of Senior High School in Padang city that were chosen proportionally based on the research purpose. The delinquency behavior in adolescent Senior High School is in the middle category that needs interference to cope with it. Counseling cognitive behavior therapy is appropriate for interference the delinquency behavior in adolescent. Keywords: blog, innovative learning, blended learning environment, reading, reporting media I. INTRODUCTION Adolescent delinquency is a social problem that needs a special concern. An action can be called delinquency if it is in contradiction with the community norms where he/she lives, an anti-social action where it has normative elements. Delinquency is not only an action which against the law but also offense the community norms [1]). The children whose parents are in prison and unemployed are potential to have delinquency behavior, [2]. Then the research of (Drake& Pandey in Traci S., 2011), physical violence and social assault are more general experience for children and adolescents who live under the poverty line. Generally, juvenile delinquency which is done by children can be a sociological delinquency as well as individuals [3]. This division is based on attitude and characteristic of action. The phenomenon that we can see is a child has delinquency behavior is started from internal condition of family which is then developed and supported by association. But not infrequently an adolescent has delinquency behavior because of imitating his/her friends’ actions, which is then developed in family. The social problems in form of delinquency behavior arise and are experienced for most of community and those phenomena will be concerned by some people to get the most effective way in resolving both in a preventive and repressive ways. Juvenile delinquency is the smallest part of social problems among society. Delinquency behavior appears based on irrational thought and cognitive processes, and usually the negative cognitive process will cause an anti-social and the actions that violate laws or rules [4]. The counseling service with a cognitive approach or technic of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help, prevent, and decrease delinquency behavior. Counseling CBT can be one of counseling programs that human behavior is the learning outcomes. Basically, counseling process is an arrangement of the process or learning experience to help individuals changing the behavior in order to be able to solve problems. Cognition is the key to understand and handle psychological disturbance. Alfrod and Beck wrote about an experience of someone and about future events and the control. Human needs to adapt with environment that is always change. Cognition is included the processes which involves the identification and prediction of various complex relationships among events in the purpose of adaptation. Human has capacity to do primal/primitive process and the high cognitive level [5]. II. METHOD This research used developmental research strategy (research & development) that refers to the opinion of Gall & Borg (2003) that “research and development is a power full strategy for improving practice. The election of research subject was done by using purposive sampling technique. III. RESULT AND DISCUSSION The descriptive analysis of delinquency behavior data which is obtained show delinquency behavior of 5th International Conference on Education and Technology (ICET 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 382 697