This study was designed to investigate the influence of reassurance supportive psychotherapy in reducing depressión among paraplegic survivors of Bantul’s earthquake. Depressión was detected from symptoms that shown by participants during research. The manifestations of those symptoms are emotional, cognitive, motivational, physiological and vegetative. Experimental design was within subject design with ABAB single subject experimental model. Preliminary research was intended to find participants with depressión using Beck Depressión Inventory (BDI). Finally, two paraplegic survivors of Bantul’s earthquake became participants of this study. Main research was conducted for four weeks from March 11th 2008 – April 2nd 2008. Data collected from monitoring record was analyzed with visual inspection technique. Qualitative data gained from treatment processes recording and reflection proces in training was analyzed with phenomenological technique by Cresswell. Results showed that reassurance supportive psychotherapy can reduce the level of depressión in paraplegic survivors of Bantul’s earthquake with varied patterns between one target symptoms to anothers. The various patterns were also found between one subject to anothers. The qualitative análisis results showed reassurance supportive psychotherapy has altered participants’s awareness to understanding themselves, then influenced their behaviours facing problems. All of those participants in this study was women. Conflict with spouses happened frequently. Reassurance supportive psychotherapy helped them coped the problems and realized self potention that they have, therefore lead to decreasing symptoms targets in general. It is worthy to note that the study was not free from external factors, so environment can affect psychological participants changes. Key words : Reassurance supportive psychotherapy, depressión, paraplegy, survivors of Bantul’s earthquake ¹) Program of Master Psychology, Psychology Faculty of Gajah Mada University Yogyakarta ²) Psychology Faculty of Gajah Mada University Yogyakarta

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