Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2026

This issue assembles studies on current challenges and innovations in education, guidance, and counseling. It begins with work on self-esteem as protection against fear of missing out, existential–humanistic group counseling for bullying survivors, and critical-thinking development in the AI era. Subsequent articles design and test interventions and culture-based guidance, including CBT-based patrol-music programs, assertiveness training, Marung- and Mapalus-inspired approaches, and self-love–oriented classical guidance. Other contributions examine career edupreunership, undergraduates’ intentions to become teachers, and transformational school leadership, alongside research on parental involvement, self-control, discipline, and character-based classroom management. The issue also features applied learning in Islamic education, vocational/STEM contexts, and Instagram-based digital entrepreneurship.