<![CDATA[The purpose of this research is to decrease parenting stress on parents with intellectual disability kids using Mindfulness Based Distress Management. This research employed concurred embedded method (imbalance mixture) between quantitative research and qualitative research, with quantitative as the primary method and qualitative as the secondary method. The subjects in this research were four female parents age 41 – 43 years old, and experienced medium until high parenting stress based on parenting stress scale. Data obtained were analyzed using Wilcoxon signed rank test analysis. The analysis result shows that there is significantly different parenting stress from pretest and post-test (Z=-1,841, with P = 0,03, then p <0,05). Therefore, mindfulness based distress management is effective in decreasing parenting stress on parents with intellectual disability kids. Beside that, qualitative analysis shows that mindfulness therapy based distress management is effective and beneficial to issues acceptance towards the kids’ condition until the subjects become grateful and own motivation in parenting the kids with intellectual disability. This condition makes the subject more accepting and even feel more able to love the child, so that he is enthusiastic in caring for the child properly and full of love.]]>
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