2015, Vol.23, No.2

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1739-0745 / eISSN : 2799-6530
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jocag

Traditional psychology, focusing on negative and pathologic parts of each individual, believed that curing and changing those symptoms could solve the problems and increase the feeling of happiness. However, positive psychology, recently on the rise, is an approach which tries to increase the optimal feeling of happiness and improve the quality of life by developing and enhancing the positive aspects of each individual. Positive psychology is also known as psychology of happiness. The psychology of happiness has many points to be criticized from the perspective of christianity because it is a humanistic approach based on the development of human potential and possibilities. The true biblical happiness means to have a right relationship with God and enjoy the 'blessing' from God. The biblical blessing is not easy to understand, sounds paradoxical, and sometimes goes with trial and pain because it has different meaning and level from the happiness in psychology. Happiness theory of positive psychology is thought in the level of aims, contents, methods, and results of Christian life. Christians will experience the true biblical happiness when they make efforts to enjoy the 'blessing' from the perspective of the Bible in the true relationship with God. And Christian Counselors must to analysis the critical points about positive psychology and to study the possibilities of acceptance and integration in the perspective of Christian worldview.

The purpose of this study is to make Christian counseling suggestions based on narrative therapy in order to prevent elderly suicide whose rate is the highest in the life cycle. According to the domestic and foreign studies, religiosity and spirituality is the protection factor to lower elderly suicide rate. Based on the result, through the narrative therapy, this study tried to intervene to prevent elderly suicide from the perspective of Christian counseling. The Christian counseling suggests based on narrative therapy to prevent elderly suicide are presented as follows: First, the story saturated with elderly issues leads into an alternative story newly Secondly, story transition should bring about the creation of life meaning. Thirdly, a client's sad and despairing story should be re-authored to a story to recover the client's crushed self-esteem. Fourthly, it is required to connect human narrative with God's narrative through active religious activities like church service. Fifthly, it is necessary to build cooperative relationship through re-membering service that provides the elderly with the unique wisdom and practice of Christianity. Sixthly, with the application of the reflecting team of narrative therapy, it is needed to enrich individuals' life experience. By making the suggestions, this study is meaningful in the point that it re-constructs narrative therapy from the Christian perspective and finds the practical and clinical implication to prevent elderly suicide.

The selective mutism is an psychological anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech does not speak in specific situations or to specific people. The selective mutism usually coexists with shyness, social psychological anxiety, and social phobia. Also, the adolescents who have experienced trauma are known communication disorder to suddenly stop speaking. The selective mutism can contribute to chronic depression, further anxiety, and other interpersonal relation and emotional problems. The medical treatment of this disorder is medication to with phenelzine and fluoxetine. The skills of counseling psychology is art therapy, music therapy, game play therapy, play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family therapy. But this study is qualitative case research with Christian counseling for the reduce of psychological anxiety of selective mutism in the adolescents. The participant is 17-year-old boy to have psychological anxiety by selective mutism’ symptom. This case research implemented to be 9 times of individual counseling. The Christian counseling for the reduce of psychological anxiety is Bible leading, intercessory prayer, and worship service. The result of research has been reduced of psychological anxiety by 35.7% than in pre-test, decreased 21.9% than in after-test. In addition, participant has been improved communication with the mother. In the above result, Christian counseling’ skill has been proven to be effective for the reduce of psychological anxiety of adolescents’ selective mutism.