2016, Vol.24, No.1

Journal of Counseling and Gospel 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

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

Child maltreatment in Korea is occurred and repeated by parent. In this study the phenomena of child maltreatment is studied on the cases reported through news. The reasons and effects of domestic violence is examined and the treatment and prevention of it is searched. The circumstances of the violent family is characterized as highly stressful, lack of time and money for family wellbeing. Violent parents are raised under similar situations, as a result, they don't have proper role model of parent. They hardly managed to make living, make understanding for each other in the family because they have not enough chances of revealing their thinking and emotions. They easily burst into violent anger projecting their own frustrations, and maltreatments to their children in the name of disciplines. Child maltreatment negatively influence child in the process of personality formation, value system and human relationships. Here, the family systems therapy method that looks family not in pathological perspective, but focuses on enhancing their positive interactions to develop loving relationships, is introduced as a way to approach violent family. It cultivates mutual dedication and love and differentiation through enhancing efficient communication to understand each other by using family life-storytelling method through family game at the time of encounter with violent family.

The purpose of this study is to investigate New Calvinism’s influence as a major cause to the recent expansion of Biblical Counseling Movement in American Evangelicalism, The study first examines the status of Biblical Counseling in Evangelical Christian Counseling, and then describes how Biblical Counseling as well as New Calvinism have expanded in American evangelicalism. The study argues that to understand the rise of Biblical Counseling 'New Calvinism" should be examined. To prove New Calvinism’s influence on Biblical Counseling, the study investigates the writings of Timothy Keller and John Piper, two important leaders of New Calvinism, in the areas of theology and counseling. The study pointed out that Biblical Counseling was founded on the principles of Reformed theology and has emphasizes God, the Bible, and Church. In the area of counseling theory, the article noted that Biblical Counseling put emphasis on biblical understanding of person and motivation of heart. Based on this examination, It was argued that Keller and Piper, in their writings, share these theological and counseling views with Biblical Counseling. As a conclusion, the study provides implication that examining theological influence in studying Christian counseling is important, and suggests that future studies need to develop concrete models of change and methods to enhance Biblical Counseling.

This article focuses on in depth analysis and evaluation of the Adlerian psychology’s life style from the christian counseling perspective. The term life style refers to a person’s basic orientation toward life. It is more or less equivalent to terms such as personality, world-view and core belief. The life style is powered by the search for significance and the social concern. The search for significance occurs when a person experience the inferiority feelings and then engages in various attempts to compensate. Social concern is tone of the basic premises of the Adlerian approach. We are primarily social beings and that their behaviors can be understood only in terms of a social context. So each human being is born with the capacity to develop social interest. There is more compatibility between Christianity and Adlerian concepts than with most of the other systems of psychotherapy. There is an parallel between the Adlerian drives of superiority and social interest and the dominion and relational motives in the Christian creation story. However, the idea of God, as a mere projection of our psyches, is far from the biblical understanding revealed in the Scripture. We, also, need to understand the biblical world-view which is the objective guideline of our subjective world-view.