Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Caring for children with special needs requires patience as a foundation that can support caregivers in facing various caregiving challenges. This study aims to explore the experiences of mothers who have children with special needs in facing life's trials, and its relationship to the concept of patience in Islamic teachings. This study uses a qualitative approach with observation and in-depth interviews with three informants who are mothers of children with special needs. The results of the study show that patience in caregivers not only reflects the ability to restrain oneself from despair but also involves the development of deep emotional, cognitive, and spiritual aspects. The caregiver's experience illustrates that patience is an active process that involves inner struggle, perspective transformation, and spiritual strengthening to remain steadfast in facing challenges, and becomes the basis for providing compassionate and courageous care. The dynamics of patience in caregivers are manifested in the process of accepting a diagnosis, patience in obedience, patience in facing trials, patience in refraining from sin, encouraging a balance between tawakal and ikhtiar in treatment, and spiritual transformation in the meaning of trials. In the perspective of Sufism, is a maqamat achieved through practice and struggle in facing life's trials.
Source: ESOTERIK
Institution: Walisongo State Islamic University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408765707