Meiske Puluhulawa a , Mohamad Rizal Pautina a , Moh. Rizki Djibran* a 158 Research Note Emotion-Focused Coping in Single Mother who has Adolescence with Autism Elizabeth Fransiska Dina* a , Faizah Hermawan a , Yuliezar Officers of the Virgin a [a] Department of Psychology, Brawijaya University, Indonesia Abstract The single mother who has adolescence with autism have higher stress levels than mothers who have normal ones and make them do coping, one of them is emotion-focused coping. The research is qualitative phenomenology based and analyzed with Miles Hubberman. The result showed most subjects tend to cope with escape (a rejection and wishful thinking), social- emotional support (family and environment), self-control (patient), distancing (avoiding problems), positive reappraisal (: "to God) and accepting responsibility (acceptance and responsibility). Single mothers tend to cope with their way frequently to reduce stress and when they are facing their childish behavior. Keywords: autism; emotion-focused coping; single motherboard GUIDENA: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan, Psikologi, Bimbingan dan Konseling Website : https://ojs.fkip.ummetro.ac.id/index.php/bk Received: 2017-08-31. Published: 2017-12-30 *Corresponding Email: elisabet_dina@yahoo.com This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction Wardani (2009), says that the son is a gift for the parents in the family. Many good things are expected to the Son, as healthy and normal in physical and spiritual. However, do not close the possibility of families who have children with particular specificity as an autism development disorder that will be taking for a lifetime, including in adolescence. autism is the only autism experiencing the transition period the development of children toward an adult. They have the same development physically with normal, namely reach puberty. However, Kartikasari (2015) explain their development will be too late on the Cognitive Aspect (delays in speaking and teaching verbal) and psychosocial (lack the ability to socialize and empathy) because of the autism positions. The existence of adolescence duties on the family can cause enormous challenges in supervision and the facility. In the complete family, a candidate can help one another in the face of the challenges that are on adolescence autism them. The situation is different in some cases the family formed incomplete (mother or father only) because certain factors (died or divorce) called as single parents or single parent according to Akmalia (2013), the research shows that the pressure obtained from the problems in the form of financial problems of the environment and the community. The research of Hayalappavanar Upadhay (2007) also found that single parents experience stress that more weight than the whole family or who have a candidate. The situation stress can trigger the single mother to do coping as a means to reduce stress. Coping is cognitive conversion efforts and behavior to manage internal pressures and is adaptive which means tend to be done as a form of self-defense mechanism (Santrock, 2007). Coping consists of two types namely problem-focused coping and emotion focus coping. Problem-focused coping is a strategy for reducing stress in trying to resolve the issue (Mahmood et al., 2015). On the contrary, GUIDENA: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan, Psikologi, Bimbingan dan Konseling ISSN : 2088-9623 (Print) - ISSN: 2442-7802 (Online) 2017, Vol 7, No 2, 158-163. doi: 10.24127/gdn.v7i2.979 J O U R N A L GUIDENA