The Effectiveness of Patience Therapy with Sufistic Techniques in Increasing Resilience in Adolescents

ABSTRACT


INTRODUCTION
"And be Patient. Surely, Allah is with those who are patient." 8:46).
In case of any adversity, we can put our faiths on Allah, we can say that no matter whatever the situation is that we are facing we should be faithful and patient as Allah is with us, He will never leave us alone (Departemen Agama RI, 2019).
The attitude of resilience needs to be developed by everyone. It is the strength and ability to bounce back from adversity, that must be possessed by every individual (Fitri & Kushendar, 2019). Humans respond to problems in life differently, some exhibited negative responses such as insecurity, hopelessness, and even suicide. Some individuals exhibited positive attitude by trying to bounce back and exhibit wise responses. Fullerton et al. (2021) suggest that resilience is generally the ability to survive, adapt, and solve problems, which is important to help individuals solve their problems.
Every individual has their own problems, and their ability to learn from their environment and think makes them resilient in dealing with problems, including problems during adolescence. Almost all individuals have experienced sadness, disappointment, and anxiety, as flow of life almost never aligns with one's personal plan. Adolescence, as a transitional period from childhood to adulthood, is a crucial stage in which individuals experience psychological and physical development. In this period, adolescents often face problems. During this period of development, of course, teenagers will experience problems. Previous studies showed the importance of resilience during adolescence. Putri and Rusli (2020) reported that adolescents in Nurul Ikhlas Modern Islamic Boarding School perceived 105% and 89.5% resilience due to peer support.
Research by Mujahidah and Listiyandini (2018) shows that the influence of affective empathy on adolescents can increase the occurrence of depressive symptoms, which are predicted to decrease if there is high resilience. So that resilience is very influential in reducing symptoms of depression in adolescents.
There are two types of Islamic psychology interventions: integrative Islamic psychology interventions and original Islamic psychology interventions. The original form of Islamic psychological intervention is called akhlaq, and it is focused on worship and values. Dhikr, prayer (shalat), Quranic, and dua therapy go under the category of original Islamic intervention based on worship, whereas patience therapy, gratitude therapy, and repentance therapy fall under the category of original Islamic psychology intervention based on morality. Integrative Islamic psychology intervention includes both general and specific integrative Islamic psychology interventions as well as Islamic psychology interventions focused on morality and worship. Islamic cognitive therapy, religious cognitive behavioural treatment, religious coping therapy, and Islamic counselling are examples of general integrative therapies in Islamic psychology. Dhikr relaxation treatment is one of the methods used in integrative psychology that is based on worship (Nashori et al.,2019).
Current research focuses on the original Islamic psychology intervention based on morality it is the patience therapy and focuses on sufistic techniques Based on interviews with several teenagers in Warak village, it was found that each teenager in Warak village has their own problems. This was proven by interviews with Warak village teenagers with the initials L and S Warak village teenager with the initials L said that he felt lazy to do his assignments, because he had a lot of schoolwork, and ended up stressed thinking about these tasks. Meanwhile, teenager S said that he was stressed thinking about his family and schoolwork, especially at home there are family problems, which may be almost every day parents quarrel. This is the reason he used by smoking, praying too haphazardly as an escape also sometimes against parental advice, from there he was not interested in what his parents did as they always quarreled and were finally stressed.
It is in conditions like this that resilience in adolescents will be seen, the extent to which they can overcome the problems they are facing. Cases that are often seen in Warak village are peer relationships that lead to negative emotions in most cases as well as attitudes of resistance to parents, despair, depression, and giving up easily. This happens because of the lack of parental attention to children and the lack of understanding of religious knowledge. It is often seen that teenagers in Warak village do not enthusiastically attend religious gatherings. It happens so that whenever they are advised by their parents regarding anything they tend to underestimate and even some fight back.
Inspecting the cases, it can be said that these problems in adolescents need special handling, not only giving advice. There is also special treatment for adolescents who are difficult to control. Lestari (2012) defines juvenile delinquency as an act by someone who is not yet an adult who deliberately violates the law and who knows by the child himself that if his actions are known by law officers, he is subject to the law.
Patience therapy is a process to cure someone from the illness they experience, both psychological and mental illnesses which are carried out by experts (Alang, 2020). Thus, patience therapy is a psychological therapy given to someone with the aim of changing mindsets. In achieving the next goal of patience therapy, the technique used in this therapy is Sufistic therapy (takhali, tahalli, tajalliI) by making the counselee aware of himself through prayer, telling the story of the Prophet, and inviting dhikr in order to foster faith in the counselee and make the counselee feel calm and confident that the problems that occur according to his ability level. Based on various previous problems, this study wants to see how effective adolescents are when they have been given sufistic patience therapy.
In addition, several studies have shown that resilience has a significant effect on depressive symptoms with an effective contribution of (1.8%). Empathy has an influence on depressive symptoms. Significantly with an effective contribution of (2%). Resilience and empathy can significantly affect the appearance of depressive symptoms with a total effective contribution of (5.5%) (Mujahidah & Listiyadini, 2018). The results of Muwakhidah's research (2021) state that peer counseling can increase adolescent resilience.
Thus, peer counseling is effective for increasing low resilience.
This study is to examine the effectiveness of guidance, patience therapy, Sufistic techniques on resilience among adolescents due to problems experienced by them. As there is a dearth of researches in this topic, there is a need to look more into this as problems that exist within the individual or from the internal and external environment make adolescents stressed and discourages them in carrying out daily activities such as at school. This study provides limited research on mental health and helps fill a gap in the literature. The results of this study have the potential to inform the development of culturally meaningful interventions to facilitate the mental health and well-being of Warak Village adolescents.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness between mentorship, patience therapy, Sufistic techniques, and it's effect on resilience in Warak Village adolescents. Understanding this effectiveness may inform the development of interventions to support the mental health of Warak Village adolescents and to promote effective guidance of patience therapy with Sufistic techniques and resilience.

METHODS
This work was categorized as a quantitative study, a method based on the philosophy of positivism to picture certain populations or samples (Sugiyono, 2018). More specifically, this pre-experimental study applied one-group pre-test and post-test design. This study population was 98 adolescents in Warak village adolescents with 20 adolescents involved as participants, consisting of 10 females and 10 males. The mean age of the participants was 15 years old. Pretest and posttest were conductedusing a 50-item resilience scale. Data were analyzed using paired sample t-test with SPSS version 25.0 application. This test was conducted to determine the difference in pretest and posttest scores.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The results of the study showed differences in pretest and posttest scores, more clearly shown in table 1. Based on table 2, the. sig (2-tailed) value is 0.000 <0.05. Thus, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. The results revealed there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores, which means that patience therapy guidance services with Sufistic techniques can increase resilience in adolescents in Warak Village, Dukuh Subdistrict, Sidomukti District, Salatiga City.   The therapy will not only may help the adolescent with resilience, as patience even goes beyond resilience and incorporates it. Tolerance, adaptation, return, compatibility, capacity improvement, change and reformation are among the conceptual constructs of resilience, whereas the conceptual constructs of patience include the avoidance of anger, the avoidance of lusts, forbearance, perseverance, waiting, and the openness of mind. Such a process of patience growth includes emotional restraint, forbearance, endurance, waiting, and perfection (Martinez, 2022;Ahmadi, 2020).
Meanwhile, guidance is one of the fields and programs of education, and this program is intended to help optimize student development (Sitinjak & Canu, 2023). Lubis et al.
(2021) suggests that guidance and counseling is a process of assistance provided by counselors to counselees through face-to-face meetings or reciprocal relationships between the two, so that counselees have the ability or ability to see and find their problems and can solve their own problems. From the explanation above, it can be concluded that guidance and counseling is a process of assistance provided by the counselor to the counselee, where the counselor only bridges and is expected that the counselee is able to solve the problems or problems faced. The 10 functions in guidance and counseling are understanding, prevention, development, healing, channeling, adaptation, adjustment, repair, facilitation, maintenance.
Patience therapy according to Mahmudah and Muhammad (2022) Therapy in English means treatment and healing, in Arabic, ayafa-yasfi-syifa, which means healing. Therapy can also be interpreted as a systematic and planned effort in overcoming the problems faced by the client by restoring, maintaining, and developing the client's condition so that his mind and heart are in a proportional condition and position. Thus, therapy is a healing effort for someone that is carried out systematically in order to restore the condition of the mind and heart. Aktulga-Gurbuz (2022)

Meanwhile, religion that is mystical in Islam is called Sufism and by orientalists it is called
Sufism. So that the term sufism is only used for myths in Islam. Rajab (2014) explains that the methods and techniques of Islamic psychotherapy therapy are based on the Al-Quran, hadith, and the results of ijtihat. The division of methods and techniques of therapy has several phases, including: takhali, tahalli, tajalli. This is in line with the stages in the existing techniques in akhlaki Sufism developed by the Sufis.
According to Hanifiyah (2019), takhali is a step to clean the heart from various sins, despicable traits. And heart disease that is embedded in the heart. So that the way that can be done is to clean the dirt, because if it is not cleaned immediately the dirt thickens and is difficult to clean.
According to Sholihin and Anwar (2011), tahalli is an effort to fill or decorate oneself by familiarizing oneself with praiseworthy attitudes, behaviors, and morals. Hanifiyah (2019) tajalli is a stage of increasing the relationship with Allah so that every worship performed by humans as creatures is not only ritual in nature, but also spiritual in nature. In addition, at this stage humans are taught how to bring out the divine nature within the boundaries of humanity.
Islamiyah (2017) and Ilyas (2020) explains the steps to apply patience therapy with Sufistic techniques with takhali and tahalli. Takhali, which aims to cleanse and treat the soul from all dirt and anxiety, the techniques used include ablution first because ablution is a means of cleansing the soul starting from the outside of the body so that the spiritual part of the self then prayer after ablution. Ablution is done to strengthen faith and eliminate sins, as in the Al-Quran surah Al Baqarah verse 22.
Meaning: "It is He who has made the earth a plain for you and the sky a roof, and He sends down water (rain) from the sky, and produces with it all fruits as sustenance for you; therefore, do not make partners for Allah, when you know." The next technique is to perform repentance prayers and pray to Allah for all the mistakes and sins that have been committed such as excessive depression and sadness after getting a disaster. Through these prayers, humans get closer to Allah, so that they can cleanse themselves of sins caused by anxiety and so on. The way to get closer to Allah easily is believed to be by absorbing every movement in prayer and trying to interpret the prayers that are said.
Tahalli, which aims to develop and foster good qualities, the techniques used include emulating the story of the Prophet Muhammad who was also left behind by the death of his  (Uyun & Witruk, 2017).
The results of the current research reveal that interventions that focus on improving health and promoting patient guidance with Sufistic techniques are effective in reducing stress experienced by adolescents. In addition, the finding that Sufistic therapeutic guidance moderated the relationship between resilience and stress levels suggests that interventions that address both resilience and Sufistic therapeutic guidance may be more effective in reducing stress compared to interventions that only focus on one of these factors.

CONCLUSIONS
This study demonstrated how adolescents in Warak village exhibit improved patience from a mean score of 164.5 (82%, moderate level) to 171.35 (86%, high level) after engaging in patience therapy with sufistic technique. This study showed that patience therapy with Sufistic techniques is effective in increasing the resilience of Warak Village adolescents, as indicated by sig. value 0.000 (< 0.05).
It seems that the guidance service of patience therapy with Sufistic techniques and resilience has a significant impact on the various problems and issues faced by adolescents in Warak Village. In addition, patient therapeutic guidance with Sufistic techniques and resilience were found to be significant predictors that increases the resilience in adolescent in Warak village. Low Resilience can positively predict the problems faced by adolescents.
These findings suggest that interventions aimed at increasing resilience are effective in reducing stress among adolescents in Warak Village, Salatiga. However, it is important to note that further research is needed to confirm these results and to examine the mechanisms underlying this relationship.
This study's participants were limited and were not comprehensive. It is expected for adolescents to always improve their resilience, so that individuals can control themselves, be able to control emotions, and be able to assess all problems positively. It is also expected that the guidance services of patience therapy with Sufistic techniques can add insight and knowledge in the field of guidance and counseling regarding patience therapy to increase resilience in adolescents. This study may also be used as a reference for future studies aiming at developing other techniques in guidance and counseling services.