Penguatan Ekspresi Emosi Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus Melalui Media Edukatif Roda Emosi di SLB Negeri Pembina Yogyakarta

This psychoeducation is motivated by the need for service support for students with special needs at SLB Negeri Pembina Yogyakarta. Some students with intellectual disabilities require assistance in recognizing and expressing their emotions. The purpose of this counseling activity is to provide appropriate media needed to support the development of students’ emotional expression in everyday social interactions. The counseling method employed was a play-based learning approach. The evaluation of the effectiveness of this method involved 10 students with intellectual disabilities, consisting of 7 male students and 3 female students in Grade VII of junior high school. Based on the results of the counseling activities, which were conducted in three stages—namely the opening stage, the emotion recognition stage, and the application of the emotion wheel—it was found that the use of the emotion wheel media strengthened the emotional expression abilities of students with intellectual disabilities. This improvement was evident from observable changes in the emotional behavior of some students.