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Depression Recovery Processes of Christian Middle Age Women through Biblical Counseling - Grounded theory approach-

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2013, 21(), pp.292-321
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2013.21..292
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 20, 2013
  • Accepted : November 11, 2013

Young Ok Ji 1 Kim Mi Kyung 1

1한영신학대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to explore a substance theory appropriate for middle-aged christian depressed women by explaining how the participants recovered from their depressions and to verify the treatment phases of depression and the types of the recovery processes. For this purpose the grounded theory approach as one of qualitative research was used. The subjects of this study were eight middle-aged christian women who were about early-40s to mid-50s. And the data was based on 8 counseling cases which were progressed by one biblical counselor. After researching, 155 concepts, 39 sub-categories and 15 categories were derived from this study in the open coding. The recovery process had shown 6 stages. Core category out of selective coding was ‘the progress of restoring life by trusting God’. There were three types of depression recovery. ‘Independent maturation of faith type’, ’Faith community’s maturation type’, ‘Dependent on Shamanistic faith type.’ In addition, this study included the analysis of its contextual model. Based on the results of the above studies, this paper was to resolve the christian middle-aged women’s problem who suffered from depression. And this study tried to provide the theoretical foundation of biblical counseling by determining the types and stages.

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