Elmira N. Sumintardja
Magister Psikologi Profesi, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

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PERAN SOLUTION-FOCUSED PREMARITAL COUNSELING TERHADAP KESIAPAN MENIKAH PASANGAN INDIVIDU DEWASA MUDA Rebeka Pinaima; Elmira N. Sumintardja
MANASA Vol 5 No 2 (2016): Desember, 2016
Publisher : Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

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Couples who are going to get married tend to prepare intensively for their wedding, but most invest little time preparing for their marriage, which is intended to last a lifetime. As a result, the couple might lack having marital readiness to face potential problems that could arise in marriage. This applied study attempts to learn about the role of solution-focused premarital counseling as an intervention to optimize young adult couples’ marital readiness. Data were collected from 10 participants (five young adult couples) between age 25-29 (mean = 26.70, SD = 1.49) from Jakarta. Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test using SPSS 23 are applied. Results showed that solution-focused premarital counseling increased each couples’ marital readiness in general, which includes the family of origin factor, significant others approval, and the couple interactional processes. The program enabled all participants to receive deeper knowledge about their partners and understand the impact of each family background. It also trained each couples to establish their skills and different strategies to meet conflict resolution. However, there were no significant improvement on the individual characteristics factor, possibly caused by the relatively short period of the intervention.
PERAN BRIEF CBT TERHADAP TINGKAT DEPRESI DAN MASALAH BODY IMAGE PASIEN KANKER PAYUDARA DEWASA MUDA Prischa Nova; Elmira N. Sumintardja
MANASA Vol 5 No 2 (2016): Desember, 2016
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Cancer is disease due to uncontrolled cell, until now it has not been found the cause of cancer. Treatment to breast cancer patients have an impact on physical, psychological, dan social. Treatment to breast cancer will give the impact on physical such as loss of hair and scars. By changes physically, perception of a person about his body relating to the psychological state of breast cancer patients (body image). Not only physically, the treatment of cancer will affect the psychological state of breast cancer patients. One psychological response to a chronic disease is depression. Individual with depression tends to develop negative thoughts, and individual with depression also tends to been distorted body image. To address the problem, then required psychological therapy. The brief CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) help breast cancer patients to resolve negative emotion by changing behavior and negative thought. The purpose of this research is to see the role of brief CBT on depression level and body image problem in young adulthood breast cancer patients. The design of this study was quasi-experimental study involving 5 subjects through convenience sampling. Data obtained by using interviews, observations, and quessionaire. The quistionnaire used was the beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) and Body Image Scale. Brief CBT is given 6 sessions within 60-90 menit each session. Data were analyzied using Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test. Five women completed the intervention, the analysis showed that after the end of treatment the score of depression show lower levels (p = 0,05) and Brief CBT marginally significant on body image (0,06).
GAMBARAN MINDFULNESS PADA PENGGUNA NARKOBA SUNTIK YANG MENJALANI PROGRAM TERAPI RUMATAN METADON Eric Sindunata; Elmira N. Sumintardja
MANASA Vol 5 No 1 (2016): Juni, 2016
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This research aims to describe the level of mindfulness on IDU that enroll in PTRM. The description is needed because there is an increase rate of drug use in Indonesia. The drug use inflicts adverse effect on the user, especially for injected drug users. IDU experience severe problem in their Quality of Life, Psychological Well Being, depression, and anxiety. Other concern about IDU is the high risk of trasmitted disease. Based on the condition, the government organizes the PTRM. However, it is found that there is such a lack of discipline among the participants. The lack discipline is the result of the lack of knowledge about PTRM, that make a lot of the participants tend to mix the metadon with other medicine or relapse in his/her drug use. The lack of knowledge usually due to the lack of openness of the participants. The openness is related to mindfulness. Effort to increase mindfulness is assumed would have effect on the effectiveness of PTRM. The study was conducted with a quantitative approach with some additional data from interview and observation. The measurement implemented was FFMQ, which consists of 39 items that divided into five indicators: observe, describe, actaware, nonjudge, and nonreact. The participants were 124 people that attend PTRM in Jakarta health center that include in the reaching program of Kios Atma Jaya. The result showed that the participants of PTRM that still mix their metadon had a lower score of mindfulness in observe, nonjudge, nonreact, and total score. It was very different if we compare the score with the score of participants that never mix their metadon anymore, their average score was belong to moderate category.
KAJIAN REMINISCENCE GROUP THERAPHY PADA DEPRESI LANSIA WANITA YANG TINGGAL DI PANTI WERDHA Feny Mega Lestari; Elmira N. Sumintardja
MANASA Vol 5 No 1 (2016): Juni, 2016
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Depression is a mood disorder commonly experienced by the elderly. Elderly who evaluate their past experiences as failure, guilt, anger, discontent and desperation will usually fall into depression. Number of depression found in elderly women tends to be higher in comparison to that of the elderly men. Elderly living in nursing houses tend to experience depression more than ones who live with the family. The aim of this study was to observe the effect of reminiscence group therapy in reducing depression experienced by the elderly women who live in nursing houses. Study conducted on a group of eight elderly women living in SA Nursing House, Jakarta. Method used is a Quasi Experimental Research with one-group pre-post design. Measuring tools used are Modified Mini Mental State Test (3ms) for the selection of participants with mild or moderate dementia category, and Geriatric Depression Scale - Short Form (GDS-SF) to determine the level of depression of the participants before and after reminiscence group therapy. The results showed that the reminiscence group therapy was successfully implemented and effective in reducing the rate of depression in the group of elderly women living in SA Nursing House, Jakarta. This is evident from a decrease in depression scores and a decrease in the number of symptoms of depression in participants that were measured by using a GDS-SF after the implementation of reminiscence group therapy.
DINAMIKA PROSES PENERIMAAN PADA IBU YANG MEMILIKI ANAK PEREMPUAN DENGAN ORIENTASI HOMOSEKSUAL Fika Ayudhia; Elmira N. Sumintardja
MANASA Vol 5 No 1 (2016): Juni, 2016
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In the society, lesbians tend to reluctant in expressing their sexual orientation. It makes them difficult to gain social support. Having support from the closest people, especially the family, is important. Mothers and daughters have the closest relationship in the family. The deep and personal relationship between mother and daughter may result in such unique difficulties for the mother when she finds out that her daughter is a homosexual. The purpose of this research is to describe the acceptance process of a mother who is facing a daughter with homosexual orientation. The researcher will also discuss other factors that weigh in the acceptance process. This research applies a qualitative approach with two participants, who are mothers with lesbian biological daughters and have already found out about their daughter’s sexual orientation. This research finds out that each participant experienced different dynamics of acceptance process towards her daughter sexual orientation. Generally, a mother begins her acceptance process with the denial phase. The next phases could differ, and several phases could be experienced at the same time. Factors that being consideration in the acceptance process depends on the life condition, values they believe in, and also mother’s personality. Aside from the acceptance of the sexual orientation, this research finds out that a mother tends to keep the good relationship with her daughter, even though she still could not accept the daughter’s sexual orientation.