PENERAPAN EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT) WITH VISUALITY UNTUK MENGURANGI KECEMASAN PADA KLIEN DISABILITAS RUNGU WICARA DI SEKOLAH LUAR BIASA NEGERI KAB. PATI, PROVINSI JAWA TENGAH

Abstract

SLB Negeri Pati is a special school owned by the government that provides educational
services for people with hearing, speech and intellectual disability. In providing services for
hearing-speech disability persons who have anxiety with various symptoms that arise, namely,
easy to forget, difficult to concentrate, moody, easily tired, easily irritated, when meeting other
people, choose to avoid, speak fast, and irregular breathing, besides that,its well known that
the deaf-speech disability with all the limititations of hearing and speech devices causes
psychosocial problems that the experiences such as; anxiety, fear, stress, maybe event trauma,
all of which are difficult for others to know/understand. Through visually modified EFT,
various psychosocial problems can be overcame, one of which is anxiety. The purpose of this
study was to obtain an overview of the implementation of EFT-V towards reducing deafness
anxiety at SLB Negeri Pati, The objectives are to find out a description of: 1. Characteristics
of research subjects; 2. Anxiety of hearing-speech disability before the implementation of EFTV; 3. Anxiety of hearing-speech disability after the implementation of EFT-V; 4.
Implementation of EFT-V to overcome feelings of irritability with hearing-speech disability; 5.
Implementation of EFT-V to overcome poor memory with hearing-speech disabiltiy; 6.
Implementation of EFT-V to overcome moody behavior with hearing-speech disability. The
method used in this study is a quantitative research of experimental research Reversal Single
Subject Design (SSD). The result of the research is that EFT-V therapy is quite effective in
reducing anxiety in hearing-speech disability based on the results of measurements using the
HARS Scale. In addition, from the visual data analysis conducted, there are positive changes
in target behavior that can be seen from the observation graph.