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A Christian Counseling Approach to Posttraumatic Growth

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2015, 23(2), pp.291-325
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2015.23.2.291
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 2, 2015
  • Accepted : November 2, 2015

Woo Jae Lee 1

1부산대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This research tried to present a christian counseling approach so that an individual to experience trauma from Catastrophic events and accidents may suffers from multitude of its symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic, phobia, and posttraumatic stress, but eventually can reach posttraumatic growth (PTG) and positive change by effectively coping with it as he/she is not diagnosed into mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). For this purpose, this article not only investigated what traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder are, but also proposed precaution in Christian counseling associated with three views of trauma revealed in the Bible – a view of God’s judgement, a view of a impact from the Fall, and a view of an opportunity to commune with God. This study examined a few important variables of PTG that have been recently studied and frequently cited in this area like attachment styles, self-disclosure, social support, coping strategies, deliberate rumination, and religiosity and spirituality after broad categorical variables found by leading researchers are reviewed. This research investigated its Biblical answers as well as an existential question that is often asked by individuals encountering traumatic events and then suggested both what an integration model of the Christian counseling is and a way of integrating psychotherapeutic dynamic model of change with it.

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