Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Resiliensi adalah kemampuan untuk bangkit kembali atau pulih ke keadaan semula.
Penelitian ini bertujuan agar penulis mengetahui gambaran resiliensi orang tua anak
berkebutuhan khusus (tunagrahita) baik itu kategori ringan, sedang, dan juga berat
di Yayasan bina upaya kesejahteraan para cacat (Bukesra) Ulee Kareng Kota Banda
Aceh, dan agar penulis mengetahui faktor apa saja yang mempengaruhi resiliensi
orang tua anak (tunagrahita) kategori ringan, sedang dan juga berat di Yayasan bina
upaya kesejahteraan para cacat (Bukesra) Ulee Kareng Kota Banda Aceh. Jenis
penelitian yang digunakan adalah pendekatan kualitatif metode deskriptif. Subjek
data penelitian ini yaitu orang tua dari anak berkebutuhan khusus (tunagrahita) yang
berjumlah 4 informan. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara dan
jenis penelitian yang menggunakan adalah penelitian deskriptif yang memberikan
gambaran tentang fenomena-fenomena yang terjadi saat ini. Hasil penelitian
menunjukkan bahwa para orang tua yang mempunyai anak tunagrahita baik kategori
ringan, sedang, dan juga berat memiliki resiliensi yang tinggi. Walaupun di awal
mula orang tua sedih ketika mengetahui anaknya mengalami tunagrahita dan
membuat resiliensi diri menjadi rendah namun seiring berjalannya waktu dan banyak
hal yang orang tua lalui baik itu dari segi permasalahan yang dihadapi, faktor-faktor
yang sudah dilalui membuat orang tua mempunyai resiliensi yang tinggi.

Resilience is the ability to bounce back or recover to its original state. This research aims to enable the author to understand the description of the resilience of parents of children with special needs (disability) in the mild, moderate and severe categories at the Ulee Kareng Foundation for the Welfare of the Disabled (Bukesra), Banda Aceh City, and so that the author knows what factors are involved. influencing the resilience of parents of children (with mental retardation) in mild, moderate and severe categories at the Ulee Kareng Foundation for Welfare Efforts for the Disabled (Bukesra), Banda Aceh City. The type of research used is a qualitative descriptive method approach. The data subjects for this research were the parents of children with special needs (mental retardation), totaling 4 informants. The data collection method was carried out through interviews and the type of research used was descriptive research which provides an overview of the phenomena that are currently occurring. The results of the research show that parents who have mentally retarded children in the mild, moderate and severe categories have high resilience. Even though at the beginning parents were sad when they found out that their child was mentally retarded and this made their selfresilience low, over time and the many things that parents went through, both in terms of the problems they faced, the factors that they had gone through made parents have high resilience. .