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The Counseling of Single Parent Family's Children to the Crisis Types and Coping Styles

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2008, 11(), pp.140-164
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2008.11..140
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 30, 2008
  • Accepted : November 12, 2008

Kang, Yeon Jeong 1

1고신대학교

ABSTRACT

Single parent family is the most increasing family type in Korean society. It is definited as“ the family consisted of single parent and children by reason of divorce, separate, death, leave, etc”, and it is needed social concerns and support for this family members. Single parent family has three types : fatherchildren family, mother-children family and grand father(mother)-children family. Christian counselors have a task to help and support the single parent and children and to effort the active and preventive counseling approaches for their happiness and well-being in church community and society. Also they have to consider the crisis and problem of single parent family’s children as overviewing crisis types and coping styles and to approach to the Christian counseling after establishing Christian perspectives to the crisis of single parent family’s children. This study will search diverse approaches to Christian counseling and useful methods in the basis of five crisis types (school-adaptational, psychoemotional, family-relational, socio-cultural, faith-spiritual) and three crisis coping styles (therapeutic-oriented, growth-oriented, prevention-oriented) of single parent family’s children. And it will provide the possibilities and alternatives of Christian counseling to help an healthy and happy life of single parent family’s children. Therefore Christian counselors have the task to accomplish development of counseling programs and experimental researches in the basis of these studies specifically and actually for single parent family’s children.

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