PROSIDING Seminar Nasional Bimbingan dan Konseling dan Konsorsium Keilmuan BK di PTKI Batusangkar, 28 – 29 November 2015 135 PENGARUH KONSELING PRANIKAH SOLUTION FOCUSED TERHADAP PENINGKATAN KONSEP KELUARGA SAKINAH CALON PENGANTIN Oleh: Irman* irmanstainbsk@gmail.com Ninil Elfira* ninilelfira@rocketmail.com Abstract Arrangements for theaspirant of bride is something very essential to begin home life. Concept happy family that owned by aspirant of bride will encourage the formation of harmonious family. Increased happy family concept for aspirant of bride can be done through counseling, one of them through premarital counseling techniques focused solution. This study aims to determine the effect of premarital counseling techniques focused solution dedicatedto the improvement of happy family concept for the aspirant of bride. The method used pre-experimental and research sabjek as many as 10 people aspirant of bride. Analysis of data using paired samples t test with SPSS release 20. The results showed a significant effect of premarital counseling focused solution toward to the improvement of the bride aspirant happy family concept, with p = 0.000. There is no effect of premarital counseling focused solution to improvement of the bride aspirant concept happy family based on gender, with p = 0.594. Based on the results, it is recommended for KUA to implement a solution prematital counseling focused solution on the bride before entering the home life. Further recommended that researchers can examine the effect of premarintal counseling solution focused on other aspects. Keywords: Premarital Counseling, bride and happy family *STAIN Batusangkar A. Pendahuluan Pernikahan merupakan seruan agama dan fitrah manusia yang harus dijalankan dengan baik(QS. Ar- Ruum:21).Kualitas pernikahan sangat ditentukan oleh kesiapan dan kematangan calon pengantin dalam menyongsong kehidupan berumah tangga.Kennedi (2005) menjelaskan ada enamupaya persiapan pernikahan yang perludilakukan, yaitu:(1) siapa danbagaimana keadaan kedua pasangan sebelummemasuki kehidupan keluarga, (2) kesehatanjasmani dan rohani kedua pasangan ketikamemasuki kehidupan pernikahan, (3) pemahamankedua pasangan tentang kehidupan pernikahandan berkeluarga, (4) suasana keluarga tempatkedua pasangan dibesarkan, (5) kondisi sosialbudaya