摘要:Keyword: key words: copingAbstrack:ABSTRACT :Children with autism can not be entered into a warm emotional relationships with others. Other people feel it is difficult to dive. Sometimes he likes to jump up and down for no reason that can be understood. In this case the parent is very difficult to persuade her to keep quiet because the child refused to be picked up or stroked (Budiman 1996). Formerly considered that the factor of interpersonal relationships within the family is one of the causes of autism disorders. Parents who are not prepared to deal with this issue feel very depressed, not unusual for parents to stress because observers of children with autism as a disorder calledhorrible and disgusting (abomination) (Budiman 1996). Community views about having a happy family with healthy and intelligent child who was hit in the inner parents accept their children who suffer from autism. Parents are members of more than one social group. Stress is experienced as a result of activities in every social group supporting each other and reinforce each other. As a result of or arising from the interaction with other social environment parents can experience stress that can develop and not infrequently this can make parents of autistic children are sick both physically and mentally so as not to be able to interact more optimally (Munandar 1995). Stress is a mental burden by the individual concerned would be reduced or eliminated. To reduce or eliminate stress, the individual doing the behavior adjustment (coping). If successful, the individual will return to a state homeostasis, but if not then the individual will return to again stress, that stress increases the possibility of even greater (Sarwono, 1997). Stress can trigger mechanisms that increase the risk of disease or weakened immune systems (www.Kompas.com). The subjects in this study is one person plus one other significant subjects. The approach used in research in this research is qualitative closes, which includes use of observation and interview methods. Observation made is when the subject is in school children, where the therapy, boutiques and homes have them. And interviews took place in a place agreed upon by the subject and writer, which were previously made the observation and interview guides in advance by the author. Based on theresults of research on the author, it is known that in having children autisma, the subjects were faced with various kinds of pressure that makes the subject experienced symptoms of stress and all kinds of things that create stress and coping in accordance with the problems experienced by the subject .BAB I