The purpose of this paper is to introduce a Christian theory ofcounseling for the purpose that a counselor may effectively counsel aclient who suffers from death anxiety. The contents of this paper areas follows: First, the writer explains the issue of the concept ofanxiety, the patterns of anxiety and he reasons of anxiety.Additionally, the writer utilized the questions by William Backus toevaluate each person’s anxiety. Secondly, the writer present thematerials concerning the issues of death, which are, the concept ofdeath, the patterns of death, the stages of death and the issue of deathanxiety. A main research method of this paper is to analyse many bookswhich dealt with the issues of this paper effectively. The contributionof this paper is to deal with the issue of death anxiety, which is whatmost of people should counteract, a confident death in the midst ofan uncertain future through a Christian theory of counseling.While researching various theories of psychology and counseling,the writer needed to give a presentation of an evangelical theory thatcould impart life and the ‘agape’ love of Jesus Christ to the client. Forthis reason, the writer tried to deal with the issue of ‘agape’counseling through this paper. The writer got a hint from ‘Jesus’examples of counseling in the bible and made a new heading as anew paradigm of counseling among a lot of theories.This ‘agape’ counseling is the first theory that the writer presentedas a new paradigm of Christian counseling, but not the final theory which the writer will present eventually as a completed theory.Therefore, there is the task for the writer to completely formulate thetheory of this ‘agape’ counseling among the various theories ofcounseling.
성결심리상담연구소 [Institute of Sungkyul Psychology Counseling]
설립연도
2009
분야
인문학>기독교신학
소개
본 연구소는 상담심리 및 심리치료 분야에서 학술활동 및 상담, 출판 등의 업무를 이행하는 것을 목적으로 설립되었다. 이에 개인상담, 집단상담, 심리검사 등 상담과 연관된 부분을 수행하고, 학술지 발간, 정기 학회 개최 등 학술활동 분야에도 전력한다. 또한 관련 분야의 양서를 보급하는데 앞장서기 위해 저술활동과 번역서 발간 등 서적 출판에 관한 업무를 담당한다.
간행물
간행물명
성결심리상담 [Journal of Sungkyul Psychology & Counseling]