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Pastoral Counseling for a Dying Person

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2009, 12(), pp.95-121
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2009.12..95
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : March 29, 2009
  • Accepted : May 15, 2009

Kim Young Keun 1

1장로회신학대학교

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses with Pastoral counseling for a dying person. The counseling of dying patients is commonly based on the general model of the experience of dying that has been proposed by Kübler-Ross and others. They believe that the dying patient usually goes through a series of stages(denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance), although they recognize that an individual may show signs of more than one stage at any time and may move back and forth between stages. Confronted with the news that they are terminally ill, most patients seek to deny its truth. When they do face the grim reality, they often feel great anger and rage. Many then begin a kind of bargaining process, promising reforms in return for recovery. Depression commonly sets in soon after this bargaining fails to work. If patients receive adequate pastoral counseling and care from loved ones, they ultimately accept their approaching death and are able to die peacefully. This paper suggests four jobs of pastoral counseling for a dying person as follows; ① help recovery of spiritual crisis using a appropriate conversational tone, ② talk honestly about the symptoms of a patient’s illness, ③ be supportive according to the psychological stage of a dying person, ④ give sacraments to remember acceptance and love of Jesus Christ.

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