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Christian Counseling Methods for Religious Addiction: Centering Around Application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2021, 29(2), pp.81-107
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2021.29.2.81
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 27, 2021
  • Accepted : November 6, 2021
  • Published : November 30, 2021

Roh, Chul Woo 1 JOSEPH JEON 2

1라파상담센터
2성결대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article is to clarify that a multifaceted understanding of religious addiction and a Christian counseling through application of cognitive behavioral therapy strategies. The researchers understood religious addiction from the view point of Christian counseling. This study was to examine the various problems and harms of religious addiction. In this research, the development process of religious addiction was divided into early, middle, and late stages. Religious addiction destroyed personal life and relationships and causes social problems such as oppression and violence through religion. Religious addiction also was not a true religious life, but a religious act that relieves stress and obtains self-satisfaction under the guise of faith. A total of five stages of Christian counseling approach were considered as an approach to the healing of religious addiction. The five steps consisted of searching from the first step of prayer, repenting and forgiveness, recording false beliefs, challenging the false beliefs, and cognitive reframing. Religious addiction was a spiritual disease, so the revelation of God through prayer, which is a spiritual approach, and awareness and insight from this are of utmost importance. We looked at counseling methods that record and challenge false beliefs as a process of reconstructing the client’s cognitive framework for more stable and continuous treatment.

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