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Christian Counseling for Adolescent Death Education

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2009, 12(), pp.174-200
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2009.12..174
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : March 26, 2009
  • Accepted : May 15, 2009

Hahn Sook Ja 1 Miha Park 1

1한영신학대학교

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the necessity of youth death education and to offer a basic understanding of the Christian counselling to deal with the issues involved. Overseas, death education is geared mostly towards youth and is organized by schools, which provide such courses as part of their regular curriculum. The content of their death education is as follows: first, education on valuable life on the basis of understanding death properly, second, how to overcome the sense of loss caused by death, and third, preventive education against suicide. From the Christian counselling point of view, the purpose of youths’death education must be focused on restoring the relationship with God, separated due to human sin, through Jesus Christ’s salvation. Some of the content that Christian counselling on youths’death education should include are: a self examinatory life that can maintain a right Christian attitude and values when living; a Christian way of understanding death; various information related to the process of death; strengthening the ability to deal with death; knowledge of how to help people with negative attitudes towards death; death anxiety or fear; people who are in grief; and the Christian world view on euthanasia and suicide.

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