@article{ART003273532},
author={Kim, Byungsun and Bae, Jaehyun},
title={A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education},
journal={Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching},
issn={2508-156X},
year={2025},
volume={10},
number={3},
pages={23-38},
doi={10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim, Byungsun
AU - Bae, Jaehyun
TI - A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education
JO - Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching
PY - 2025
VL - 10
IS - 3
PB - Education Research Institute at CNUE
SP - 23
EP - 38
SN - 2508-156X
AB - This study employed narrative inquiry to explore a first-year youth counselor’s experiences in delivering suicide prevention education in elementary, middle, and high schools, focusing on identity transformation, relational practice, emotional labor, and existential reflection. The participant was a part-time novice counselor with less than one year of experience, who narrated her emotional tension, practical challenges, and emerging professional identity as she taught a highly sensitive topic for the first time. Data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews and analyzed using Clandinin and Connelly’s three-dimensional inquiry framework—temporality, sociality, and place. Four narrative threads were identified: (1) a shift from information deliverer to relational helper, (2) recognition of lecture-based education as an expanded form of counseling practice, (3) experience of the classroom as a relational space of care and recovery, and (4) confrontation with emotional labor and the need for self-care. The findings suggest that suicide prevention education is a relational and existential practice that requires counselors’ emotional attunement, reflective engagement, and contextual sensitivity across school levels. This study underscores the necessity for mentoring and emotional support systems for novice counselors, age-responsive instructional models, institutional measures to prevent emotional exhaustion, and narrative-based professional development within counselor education programs.
KW - youth counselor;suicide prevention education;identity formation;emotional labor;narrative inquiry
DO - 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
ER -
Kim, Byungsun and Bae, Jaehyun. (2025). A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education. Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching, 10(3), 23-38.
Kim, Byungsun and Bae, Jaehyun. 2025, "A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education", Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching, vol.10, no.3 pp.23-38. Available from: doi:10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
Kim, Byungsun, Bae, Jaehyun "A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education" Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching 10.3 pp.23-38 (2025) : 23.
Kim, Byungsun, Bae, Jaehyun. A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education. 2025; 10(3), 23-38. Available from: doi:10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
Kim, Byungsun and Bae, Jaehyun. "A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education" Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching 10, no.3 (2025) : 23-38.doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
Kim, Byungsun; Bae, Jaehyun. A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education. Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching, 10(3), 23-38. doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
Kim, Byungsun; Bae, Jaehyun. A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education. Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching. 2025; 10(3) 23-38. doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
Kim, Byungsun, Bae, Jaehyun. A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education. 2025; 10(3), 23-38. Available from: doi:10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
Kim, Byungsun and Bae, Jaehyun. "A Narrative Inquiry into a First-Year Youth Counselor’s Experience of Delivering Suicide Prevention Education" Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching 10, no.3 (2025) : 23-38.doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.002
