| Summary: | This study addresses whether writing about emotional experiences are effective to reduce the autobiographic memory bias and depression, and the correlation of autobiographic memory bias and depression. Forty students of Pamardi Putra "Mandiri" Semarang rehabilitation participated in this study. They were followed step by step rehabilitation program during a year. All participants of this study were divide into three levels of depression, mild, moderate, and severe, whether all of these levels divided into two groups, experimental and controled group. The treatment was given to the experimental group for sixty minutes. The effectiveness of the treatment on the experiment group was evaluated three times: pre-test, post-test and follow up (one week later). To measure the treatment there were autobiographic memory scale and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). A mixed design analysis of variance was used to know autobiographic memory bias and depression descent from pre to follow up period, and regression analysis was used to know autobiographic memory and depression correlated. Result of this study showed that writing about emotional experiences were effective to reduce of depression (F = 20,175
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