PSYCOLOGY SUPPORT IN LEPROSY PATIENTS REHABILITATION

Abstract

Leprosy disease represent one of contagion, which in fact mounts its infection very lower. But the impact of the leprosy disease which can generate the handicap of the patients, that’s fact that could bring the stigma or rumors which do not profit in rehabilitation process, so that this disease almost always assumed as ‘dead card’ for the patients. This impact cause the leprosy disease frequently bring the social and psychical trouble as co morbidity (it’s follow ) and the tendency is uppermost compared to with the their medical problem.

At leprosy case, rehabilitate is represent the process ‘cure’ long-range entangling various party (inwrought), start from family environment, society, even mount the national. Process the ‘cure’ by holistic, covering aspect of bio-psycho-socio-spiritual and this means psychology got very big sharing to equip the program rehabilitate for the leprosy patients, so that, significantly we could bring the patients condition as ‘holistik’ healthy. Psychology therapy given shall have the character of the supportif, what aim to strengthening endurance bounce which there have, used the new mechanism and more adaptif to improve; repair the x’self control, so that they could developing adaptif balance and could have better adaptable.

Keywords: Psychology, Leprosy Patien Rehabilitation