Thursday (7/7), the Center of Life-Span Development (CLSD) together with the Faculty of Psychology UGM held an “Adolescent Webinars Against Violence: The Role of Families and Schools”. The event was divided into 2 sessions with different subthemes. In the first session, the sub-theme presented was “Knowing Adolescent Emotional Behavior” which was delivered by Dr. Arum Febriani, S.Psi., M.A and Sutarimah Ampuni, S.Psi., MPsych., Psychologist. Meanwhile, for the second session’s sub-themes, Drs. Sentot Haryanto, M.Sc., Psychologist and T. Novi Poespita Candra, S.Psi., M.Si., Ph.D., Psychologist with the subtheme “Building Anti-Violence Attitudes in Families and Schools”.
At the beginning of the event, Rahmat Hidayat, S.Psi., MSc., Ph.D. gave a speech, “This afternoon’s webinar is an important webinar with topics that are also important and relevant for youth and anti-violence”. Youth and anti-violence are things that need to be developed to solve cases of violence among teenagers. “Adolescent violence is certainly worrying because it has a long impact (from the violence) in terms of the next stages of development that must be passed,” said Rahmat.
In the first session, the presentation of material was started by Sutarimah, “This webinar was held against the background of violent attacks that are still happening”. Violence is not limited to teenagers, but violence can be overcome from a young age.
Meanwhile, Arum continued by deliver the material by focusing more on klithih discussions in Yogyakarta. “Especially, I will share about a phenomenon that seems to never end in Jogja”. At first, klithih had a neutral term that tended to be positive which meant “looking for activities”, but now it is interpreted as something negative.
In the second session, Novi was present as the giver of the first material, “We can actually prevent violence at the school level”. According to Novi, cases of violence are not limited to cases of physical violence, but there is also passive-aggressive violence, such as isolating one or two children because of the formation of certain groups in social circles.
Furthermore, Sentot as the second speaker at the second session as well as the last speaker at this webinar, “We cannot claim that cases of violence occur only because of one cause. Violent cases are complex. Haryanto explained that cases of violence can be achieved with several tasks, such as equalizing everyone’s perception that violence is a critical and complex issue, taking a comprehensive and systematic approach with firmness, and providing a platform for innovation, creativity, and synergy.