THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A HUMANISTIC THERAPY ON CHILD TRAUMA AT THE MADANIA ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

Trauma is a disorder that is needed to be handled appropriately according to children’s traits. This study aims to determine the implementation of therapy at the Madania Islamic Boarding School Foundation of Yogyakarta (known as YPPM) carried out through the humanistic approach to children’s trauma. What is discussed in this finding is the state of child trauma, the implementation of humanistic therapy, obstacles and results obtained from humanistic therapy on child trauma at the Madania Islamic Boarding School Foundation of Yogyakarta (YPPM). This study used the research method of descriptive qualitative. The data were collected through unstructured interviews, but still according to the interview manual, to avoid the questions of not getting out of this research topic. In addition, the researcher also conducted a literature study to strengthen the research results, associated with the theories on Journals, books, and papers of the previous researches. This finding resulted in that traumatic state which children of the Madania Islamic Boarding School Foundation of Yogyakarta have is extreme anxiety. To handle this condition is by giving the motivation, creating a comfortable situation, and carrying out the religious activity. At the same time, the child’s lack of openness is a challenge in implementing this therapy. The efforts resulted in healing for child trauma indicated by the character changes. From the obtained results, it can be concluded that the Madania Islamic Boarding School Foundation of Yogyakarta has carried out the humanistic therapy approach well, it accomplished good changes in children.