This study aims to find out the problems experienced during early adolescence, how adolescent responses to problems and how the efforts of teachers and parents towards adolescents. The qualitative research design with phenomenology through in-depth interviews using semi-structured questions on seven junior high school students, five parents and four counseling teacher in junior high school as a participant. The results show that the problems experienced are conflicts with parents, and problems with friends; adolescent responses are positive and negative when experiencing problems, efforts made by parents there are positive and negative; and the teacher takes a supportive approach to adolescents. It is necessary to develop a school system that can make adolescents resilient and have supporting factors in optimizing their mental health.

Keywords: mental health, adolescents, efforts, supportif, conflict