<![CDATA[This research is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of structural family counseling services in improving family functioning in the Pentil Community. Quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental method is used in this research. To be more precise, this research employed a non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. Sampling was carried out using a purposive sampling technique, with a total of 20 people. The samples were classified into 2 groups, namely the experimental group and the control group. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of the intervention was depicted through data analysis techniques which involved the stages of normality test, homogeneity test, n-gain test, and independent sample t-test. Empirically, the results of this study indicate that structural family counseling is effective in improving family functioning. Based on the calculation of the t-test for equality of means, it was revealed that the value of Sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000 <0.05 which signals that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the family functioning in the experimental and the control groups. In addition, the effectiveness of structural family counseling was shown by the experimental group's family functioning score which increased from 58.5 in the pre-test to 78.5 in the post-test. After providing intervention through structural family counseling, it was designated that the family functioning of the experimental group was in the high category. This result indicated that the experimental group had sown such characteristics of family with pronounced aspect of religiosity, affection, responsibility, communicativeness, emotional control, problem solving, steadiness, valuational, and the absence of domestic violence.]]>
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