• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.41-53
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• 2009

The purposes of this study are to search for counselor's change process and factors in Theraplay, and to explore how they are changed into experts. This study used a method of qualitative study to reveal a concrete context of child counseling. The results are as follows. Therapist or counselor subjects realized that therapy(counseling) was not focusing on activities, but on meanings. In the beginning, therapist subjects acted according to the situation rather than according to the child's reactions and their own strategy. It was expressed into long and boring explanations, trials to flatter a child. Therapist subjects were often depressed because of their incompetence, they even did overpraise for the undistinguished behavior of children, but gradually they have changed into expert therapists through ceaseless interaction with Theraplay community, reflection, trial and practice.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.19-32
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• 2011

This study aimed to examine how emotional experience, counselor activity self-efficacy, and job stress affect counselors' burnout. Participants comprising 321 counselors intotal were surveyed on burnout, emotional experience, counselor activity self-efficacy, and job stress. The collected data were analyzed through Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. The findings were as follows: 1) Emotional clarity, session management self-efficacy, the job stress of the working environment, counseling challenges self-efficacy and job stress related to interpersonal relationship were significant predictors of counselors' burnout. 2) Counselor activity self-efficacy partly played a mediating role between emotional experience and burnout.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.201-218
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• 2006

Using an instrument validated in an antecedent study, this study explored the effect of counseling and working environment variables on burnout in child counselors. The 191 counselors of this study worked with children under 18 years of age. Data were analyzed by Cronbach's a, quantification methods I. Counseling and working environment variables have 33% of ad-$R^2$ over the total score of burnout in child counselors. Variables contributing to burnout were workload, position in an institution, income from counseling, theoretical approach, and job stress. Counselors with 1-5 cases per week, working independent of an institution and using a single theory of counseling experienced more burnout, and counselors without challenge on the job, excessive role conflict, role ambiguousness, and excessive workload experienced more burnout.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2006

The goal of this study is to examine the relationship between efficacy belief and role performance of childcare teachers, and also to utilize the results as the basic data for teacher education. The subjects were 205 teachers at 48 childcare centers located in Jeonlabuk-do area. The instruments employed included efficacy belief, teachers' role performance, experiences, and age. The data were analyzed by t-test, Pearson correlation, and Regression Analysis. The results of this study are as follows: First, the role of child carer was the vest performance through childcare teachers' role. Second, the role of instructor, counselor, researcher, and others was significantly different among the types of childcare institution. Third, the social position of ability and personal teaching efficacy belief were correlated positively with teachers' experience. The activeness, the social position of ability, general teaching efficacy belief, personal teaching efficacy belief, and the role of child carer, instructor, counselor, researcher, and others were correlated positively with teachers' age. Fourth, the role of child carer, instructor, counselor, researcher, and others was correlated positively with the activeness and the social position of ability, whereas it was correlated negatively with failure anxiety. Lastly, the activeness was the most powerful variable influencing teachers' role performance.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.253-268
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• 2001

This study is designed to extent the investigation of the Kyongbuk Womens policy the area of family life and womens economic activity. Results indicated that the primary barriers of getting a job for married women was child rearing and the diffency of working information. On the family life, communication patterns were contributed to the problem of the relationship between child and parent, and spouse relationship. And also, school violence was founded the hot problem. The results underscore the importance of child rearing support system, and affirmative action in womens employment enviroment, Family Life Educator and Family Counselor.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3724-3731
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to find philosophy and counselor's attitudes of solution focused counseling approach. Research methods was to analyze the target literature on 'solution focus / principle; value; philosophy; attitude' through data retrieval around the books, academic papers, master thesis, Phd thesis. The results of this study are as follows. The philosophy of solution focused counseling approach is to center clients, to focus on 'effect', to base on social constructivism and to base on positive psychology. In addition, the counselor' attitudes of solution focused counseling approach is to have 'not-knowing' stance about Clients, to take the attitude of observation with sincere curiosity, to compliment the clients, to become a partner and a coach to practice solution focused counseling approach in various fields.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.207-225
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• 2008

This study used content analysis to explore how experience and coping style affect burnout in child-counselors. Data were self-reports collected by interviews of with 30 child counselors. The contents of the interviews showedthe cause of, psychological and physical responses to, and the ways the subjects coped with burnout. The summarized results are that (1) they experience burnoutwhen they feel incompetent, when counseling is ineffective, when they are under-compensated and when they are poorly supervised, (2) The psychological and physical responses to burnout are diminished self-esteem, depression, incompetence, chilling effect on other fields, and digestive problems. (3) Child-counselorscope with burnout mostly by centering on the problems and by searching for social support.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.127-151
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• 2006

This study examined ethical dilemmas experienced by child-counselors and coping behaviors they practiced in context. The analysis was performed for 30 child-counselors in Seoul and Kyunggi-do, Participants were asked to describe a self-report in an interview with the main researcher. Data were categorized, quantified and examined in terms of five ethical dimensions derived from antecedent research. The five ethical dimensions are "confidentiality and protection of privacy", "professional competence", "informed consent", "informing clients of the nature of treatment modality", and "adequacy and effectiveness of treatment". This study contributes basic data for the development of an inventory for the measurement of ethical practice for child counselors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.197-209
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the experience of child rearing in the life of school counselors and what this experience signified to them based on the narrative, a qualitative research method. For this study, two women who have at least eight year long experience, who work as school counselors and who have the experience of rearing their children during adolescence were selected as research subjects. They were subjected to interview and the following research results were drawn out. School counselors' child rearing experience was composed by focusing on the time, society and place, which are referred to as the Three-dimensional narrative investigation space. School counselors "discerned" that the experience of getting reared by original family exerts effect on children. After counseling study, they wished to "become a sufficiently good rearer" who strives to cultivate ideal parent-child relations by understanding their children after undergoing the phase of "self-reflection and apology" for discipline and forced attitude. Moreover, they were transforming into "genuine counselor" through experience based insight, and this in turn includes the meaning of "I, who function intactly."

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.29-51
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• 2006

The 191 subjects of this study were counselors working with children under 18 years of age. The instrument was validated in an antecedent study and used after testing for reliability. Data were analyzed by Cronbach' a, quantification methods I, and multi-regression analysis. Results showed demographic variables at 5% of ad-$R^2$ over total burnout. Hobbies, counseling career, religion, and major field of study were significant. Marital status and caseload affected 'doubt about job.' Counseling field, qualifications and academic career affected 'negative personal relationship' and 'symptoms of somatization.' Psychological variables were 48% of ad-$R^2$ over total burnout. Self-esteem, type AB, self-insight and empathy ability for countertransference management ability were significant. Lower self-esteem, stronger type A personality, higher self-insight and lower empathy ability, produced higher degree of burnout.