2016, Vol.24, 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

This research is to clarify the Christian counseling ethics on a counselor's sexual misconduct. The researcher dealt with the meaning and the background of counseling ethics. The researcher also examined the realities and the evil effect of a counselor's sexual misconduct, cause and weakness of a counselor's sexual misconduct, and a Christian counselor's preventive device against sexual misconduct. The definition of sexual misconduct used in this study consists of sexual intercourse, sexual violence, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual attraction, and various sexual behavior. Counseling ethics deals with a moral and ethical standard, which includes a counselor's attitude, guideline of conduct in counseling. The cases of sexual misconduct in counseling setting and also in Christian counseling setting have been reported frequently these days. A counselor's sexual misconduct breaks the trust relationship between counselors and clients. Counselors who committed sexual misconduct are mainly male. Counselors should maintain a psychological and physical safety-distance from clients. Also, counseling institutes, such as associations, academies, societies, and graduate schools, in which they issue license of counseling should provide education system and/or curriculum on Christian counseling ethics in detail. One who wants to be a Christian counselor ought to have biblical perspective on human and Christian self-identify.

The purpose of this article is to find the necessary principles of counseling, process, and methodology in Christian Counseling from a biblical perspective. For that reason this study explored an emotional approach required in early counseling process through the description of Jesus' emotional process. Jesus perceived his emotion(Mark 14:31-36) and Jesus was sensible to know it(Mark 14:32-34). Besides Jesus correctly recognized the emotion(Mark 14:35). In fact, the Bible says that Jesus gave names to his emotions of sorrow, surprise, and agony and reacted sensitively and honestly to his emotions, thereby confronting the pain which he was encountering(Mark 14:36). Jesus Christ perceived them calmly and heeded to messages from God even amid inner anxiety and agony and chose to fulfill his ultimate roles and duties based on extensive communication and deep trust with God. Bible is the spiritual repository and the most suitable book for counseling utilization. Also the Bible specifically the methodology of healing and restoration God has spoken to mankind. So this study emphasized human understanding through the Bible to be used as the principles of counseling tool and application. Finally, Christian counselors would need to have a sense of calling in order to examine and structuralize spiritual repository found in the Bible from the standpoint of counseling studies.

The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of the forgiveness promoting group program developed by Everett L. Worthington, Jr. under the Korean culture and to examine the applicability of the program in a Christian Counseling setting. The experimental and control groups were composed of 6 Korean adults each who reside in LA, USA. Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Inventory-Korean: (TRIM-K) and Trait Forgiveness Scale-Korean (TFS-K) were used as forgiveness scales, and Patient Health Questionnaire-9-Korean (PHQ-9-K), Korean Beck Anxiety Inventory (K-BAI), and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-Korean (STAXI-K) were administered to measure psychological effects of the forgiveness promoting program. The results of this study were as follows: First, the results of repeated measures ANOVAs showed that there was significant interaction effects on the total score of TRIM-K, ηp2 = .60, F(1, 10) = 14.96, p = .003. The experimental group showed more significant decrease on TRIM-K than the control group. Second, there were no significant changes on the levels of trait forgiveness, depression, anxiety, and anger between the experimental group and the control group. The results indicated that Worthington’s forgiveness promoting program was partially proven to be an effective intervention to increase the level of forgiveness in Korean culture and revealed that it can be utilized as an applicable tool in Christian Counseling settings that teach volitional and continual forgiveness.