Penerimaan Keluarga Terhadap Individu yang Mengalami Keterbelakangan Mental
ABSTRACT: The aim of this
study is to explore the family acceptance to the son/daughter who is mentally retarded,
as a step to help the optimalization process of
exceptional children and youth’s development. The qualitative method is
used here with three families as research subjects. Each family has one
mentally retarded child while the others children are normal. Many
informa-tions of these families are
taken by an interview procedure with five people being as informans. The
informans are the person who understand to all condition of subject. They are
consist of parents, sibling, step sibling, and relative who lives with the
family. The result of this research show
that among three cases of family, only
one of them which trully accept the
mentally retarded child. The acceptance in this research is related to several
factors, such as: (1) Inter-action between family member; (2) The presence
of information of child condition since prena-tal periode; (3)
Level of understanding of mental retardation; (4) The readiness to face child condition
which is different from normal one; and (5) Perception about person who is
mentally retarded. This result also show that there are several variations of
family reaction to the mentally retarded child.
Penulis: Wiwin Hendriani, Ratih
Handariyati, Tirta Malia Sakti
Kode Jurnal: jppsikologiperkembangandd060011
