Positive Parenting of Early Years DownSyndrome Children through Guidence Program and Client Centered Counseling Model

Abstract

One effort to help parents in addressing a child with down syndrome is to carry out guidance program and client-centered counseling model. The purpose of the study is to realize positive parenting over down syndrome children in early years  at one special education  school in  Bandung. The research method used is a descriptive research method to describe the state of research subject in a current factual condition by ways of observing, and interviewing. Whereas triangulation is conducted to validate the data. The research results model and procedures can be adapted in special education school, they are: client-centered counseling model, counseling guidance processes in school, and its evaluation, report, and follow-up steps. These models and procedures based on need analysis of the common problems in parents-child relationship