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Christian Counseling and Child Education for Emotional Development

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2006, 6(), pp.91-119
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : March 30, 2006
  • Accepted : May 10, 2006

Kang, Kyung Mi 1

1그리스도대학교

ABSTRACT

According to modern educational perspectives, EQ is emphasized more than IQ. That is, emotional maturity is regarded more important than intellectuality. However, an educational crisis is that children spend their most time in playing with computers. They are deprived of ordinary contacts with their peers. Emotions are psychologically defined as reponses to what they experience when humans are emotionally disturbed. The negative responses, such as depression, anxiety, fear, or anger, sometimes cause acute mental or physical suffering and chronic illnesses. The educators who have been studying child emotional developments focus on two aspects: the emotional resilience and release. To nurture emotional resilience, the child educators group children according to their ages and offer different inputs and circumstances to let them exposed to diverse emotions. Although it seems better that children experience only positive emotions, children have to be exposed to negative emotions because children will experience both positive and negative emotions throughout their lives. In addition, the educators help children to learn how to respond to negative emotions. Since our body is affected by our emotions, the educators teach to children how to express their emotions and obtain emotional stability. The educators encourage children to understand differences between entities and situations and to find some good ways to freely express how they feel. Our emotions were given to us when God created us. God intended that human emotions served as an essential tool to express, communicate, and share with other people what they think and feel. Some desirable ways to develop human emotions are to nurture children's faith by helping them understand salvific love of Jesus Christ. It is important that children do not confide themselves extremely, depend on other people's emotions, or are not completely controlled by surroundings. They have to identify themselves within Biblical perspective in order to enjoy genuine sadness, joy, and freedom.

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