dc.description.abstract | Self Acceptance is one's ability to confront problems and pressures in positive
ways by using the power and potential . This study aims to draw out the picture of
an adopted child's stream of self acceptance or how his self acceptance is sculpted
through obstacles and pressures. The subject is a man whose in adulthood stage
and still working while being actively ministring as a servant on a church. This
study using qualitative approach with study case design. The technique used in
study to collect the data was an interview. The data was analyzed by tematic
technique to integrated several themes of the collect data process. So, it could be
draw out the whole picture of an adopted child's stream of self acceptance. This
study found that subject as an adopted child was full accepted his self through any
aspect of self acceptance like openness, psychology condition, and social
adjustment. The positive effect felt by the subject in his self and social adjustment
is also shown by subject life changing. Spiritual experience, parenting, positive
support system, self understanding, and subject religiosity be the whole factor of
subject self acceptance as an adopted child. The result of this study can be a
guidance for every parents who will adopted a child to understand the processes of
adoption children and deal with them | en_US |