Integrasi Pendekatan Humanistik dan Konseling Pendidikan Islam: Pengembangan Aktualisasi Diri Peserta Didik di Pesantren

Life at a pesantren requires students to develop academic, religious, and character competencies while adapting to the boarding school environment. This study aims to describe the potential for applying educational counseling based on a humanistic approach to enhance students’ self-actualization at pesantrens. This qualitative study, conducted as a literature review, employs a descriptive-interpretive analysis of theoretical literature on humanistic psychology, client-centered counseling, and self-actualization. The findings indicate that the principles of empathy, positive acceptance, congruence, and responsible freedom support the development of self-awareness, self-confidence, creativity, independence, and social responsibility among students at Islamic boarding schools. This study contributes by offering a humanistic counseling framework integrated with Islamic values as the foundation for pesantren counseling that is dialogic, personal, and oriented toward the actualization of students’ potential.