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Spiritual Support through Psychological Problems Analysis of Military Family

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2019, 27(2), pp.201-222
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2019.27.2.201
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 29, 2019
  • Accepted : October 30, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

JOSEPH JEON 1

1성결대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This research is based on the literature review. The purpose of this study is to clarify that spiritual support and mental health maintaining for military family in Korean military: centering around military member’s spouse and children. Korea has relatively few studies on military families compared to the United States military. Multidimensional studies of mental health and psychological problems for active military, reservists and military families have been actively conducted, however the contents of spiritual support for military families have been difficult to find. This research dealt with the military families’s psychological characteristics in order to solve their problems. The researcher observed this problem from the point of view of the ministry, pastoral care and counseling in military. One of the best spiritual supports is family worship. Spiritual support including family worship was found to have a positive effect on depression, anxiety and stress reduction in the military family. Family worship also makes the family hardiness, family resilience and family healthiness. Also, one of the supporting methods for a child who has absence of fatherhood of military family is compensation hypothesis of attachment theory. Family worship as compensation hypothesis is a mean of spiritual support methods for absence of fatherhood child.

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