Family communication in the granting of sexual education for adolescents with mental retardation
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.3How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- component; family communication; sexual education; adolescents; disability; mentally disabled
- Abstract
The majority of Indonesian society still considers sex education is taboo, so the discussion about this being a rare topic discussed in the family. This can lead to a lack of understanding of the concept of sexuality in the minds of children, especially adolescents with mentally disabled who began to enter a period of puberty. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is for providing sexual education for adolescents with mentally disabled based on the results of research to the parents of Special School (SLB) students in several cities in West Java. The method used is descriptive qualitative and data collection techniques conducted by interview and observation. The results obtained indicate that the parents have difficulty in conducting sex education, due to the lack of knowledge about the information to be provided and the proper delivery methods, and the limitations of parents in obtaining sources information and communities to share experiences, plus phenomenon of easy access to internet media that has the negative content in general in the community, increasing the problems faced by parents in providing sexual education to adolescents with mentally disabled.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hanny Hafiar AU - Aat Ruchiat Nugraha AU - Yanti Setianti AU - Trie Damayanti PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Family communication in the granting of sexual education for adolescents with mental retardation BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 9 EP - 12 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.3 DO - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.3 ID - Hafiar2018/07 ER -