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The purpose of this study is to develop an effective character education program for parents to help them to play the biblical parental role through Christian character education in the field of children's education area which requires parents' role to serve as a role model and to teach their children biblical values in Christian family which is a faith community. To this end, this paper developed a Christian character education program and a biblical character education based on Christian worldview, targeting the parents of Christian alternative schools with school-age children, and verified its effectiveness. In conclusion, this research verified that the Christian character education program for the parents of alternative schools is proven to be effective for the Christian parents' nurture efficacy sense, parent-child communication, parents' spiritual well-being. Therefore, this study implies that the Christian character education program for parents helps them to improve parent-child communication and relationship by providing practical practices, and to enhance their spiritual well-being by living a life of sanctification revealing God's character along with a transformed life bearing the fruits of the Holy Spirit, with their identity as God's child.

This study was conducted to narratively inquire into the lives of middle-aged couples who are traffic accident survivors, thereby exploring their experiences and meaning of life. The participants were middle-aged couples who had experienced traffic accidents and had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The data were collected from March 2020 to October 2021, and a total of 14 in-depth interviews were performed with one to three hours per session. The study procedure followed Clandinin and Connelly's(2018) narrative inquiry method with the five-step cycle and the analysis was performed based on the three-dimensional inquiry space and the four types of directivity that Clandinin and Connelly presented. Also, the author analyzed the meaning of the 'life told by the participants' from their own perspectives. Through the story of surviving a traffic accident, the meaning of life of a middle-aged couple was derived into five, and this was discussed. Finally, understanding and follow-up studies of clients who suffered trauma in traffic accidents, psychological support, and counseling intervention were suggested.

The aim of this study is first to verify the effects of psychological burnout on parenting stress in Christian working mothers of infants and toddlers. Second, it is to prove the mediating effects of self-encouragement and emotional support in the relationship between parenting stress and psychological burnout of Christian working mothers of infants and toddlers. The subjects of this study were 202 Christian working mothers with infants and toddlers(0-6 years)and analyzed using the SPSS 22.0 program. The results are as follows: First, there was a significant correlation between parenting stress, psychological burnout, self-encouragement and emotional support in Christian working mothers of infants and toddlers. Second, the mediating effect of self-encouragement and emotional support was found to be significant in the relationship between parenting stress and psychological burnout. These results suggest that self-encouragement and emotional support can be applied as key therapeutic variables in Christian parent education and counseling to recover and prevent psychological burnout caused by parenting stress. In addition, it is meaningful that basic data were presented so that a Christian group counseling program that promotes self-encouragement and emotional support could be developed.