• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.456-477
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to provide basic data on practical intervention strategies that many people with disabilities can empower in the future by analyzing the experiences in which people with disabilities were empowered through Encounter group counseling program focusing on people with physical disabilities and brain lesions, who account for 50% of all people with disabilities. The research questions were: First, did people with disabilities get empowerment experiences through an Encounter group counseling program? Second, what kind of empowerment experiences did people with disabilities begin to have through the program? In this study, a focus group interview was conducted with the participants of the program to qualitatively evaluate the empowerment experiences from the Encounter group program. The participants were people with physical disabilities and brain lesions experiencing Encounter group counseling programs at the self-reliance center in Seoul from 2015 to 2019. As a result of the analysis, 7 components, and 17 sub-components were derived, which were grouped into three themes: 1) restoring self relationship 2) forming new relationship with others, and 3) realizing a sense of solidarity with society. The research results were discussed considering the impact of the Encounter program on personal, interpersonal, and social empowerment of people with disabilities and finally, limitations of the study and suggestions for follow-up studies were presented.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.965-976
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the Peer counseling program in on-offline would effect university students on their self-esteem and self-efficacy. In order to achieve this purpose, ten participants were in the experimental group and the other ten were in the control group. The subjects in the experimental group receive to the peer counseling program training for 120 minutes once a week for 10 weeks. The next day, practiced counseling online The data were analyzed by using t-test and ANCOVA. As the participants of the Peer counseling program reported that they experienced significant difference of improvement on their self-esteem(F=13.258, p<.01) and self-efficacy(F=15.565, p<.01) than those were in the control group. The Peer counseling program suggested that expected to positive effects it would help improve university freshmen students' self-esteem and self-efficacy.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.119-136
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to verify the effects of verbal-violence prevention program on friendship and aggression of 2nd graders in elementary schools. In order to verify these purpose, total of 24 2nd graders from each different two elementary school located in the A-Gun(a rural-mountainous area) of JeollaBukdo. Out of students, 12 students were into the experimental group, while the rest of 12 students were into the control-group. Then, the experimental group participated in the verbal-violence prevention program. Both groups were pretested the questionnaire on friendship and the questionnaire on aggression. For 12 students of the experimental group, total of 10 sessions: (40 minutes per session and 2 times a week) of program were conducted. After the sessions were complete, students of two groups took the post-test for proving the effects of the program. The results through this study can be summarized as follows. First, there was a significant difference in friendship between the experimental groups which participated in the verbal-violence prevention program and the controlled group which didn't participate in any program. Second, there was a significant difference in aggression reduction between the experimental groups which participated in verbal-violence prevention program and the controlled group which didn't participate in any program.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.487-494
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to construct a personality strength-based group counseling program that can have a positive effect on the happiness of pop culture and arts people and to verify its effectiveness. To this end, 16 artists from entertainment agencies and art high schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do were recruited and assigned to experimental and control groups, and pre- and post-examinations were conducted on both groups as personality strengths and happiness tests. In order to verify the effectiveness of the program, the experimental group conducted a total of eight personality strength programs once a week and 60 minutes per session, and the control group was ignored. As a result of the study, the personality strength and happiness of the group participating in the program were significantly improved compared to the control group, showing that training to strengthen personality strength can lead a happier life by promoting the happiness of youth pop culture artists. This is meaningful in that it has created a starting point for managing the mental health of pop culture subjects.

• Korean Journal of School Psychology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.283-313
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to develop and examine the effectiveness of 'Coping Resources Improvement Program' designed for emerging adults experiencing psychosocial difficulties during college to work transition. Based on transition model of Scholossberg(1995), the program was developed to intervene in 4S (Situation, Self, Support, Strategy) required in the transition. Participants included 31 job applicants who are senior or above and were assigned to the experimental group (N=10), comparison group (N=10), and control group (N=11). Data to verify effectiveness were collected pre-, mid-, and post treatment. Results indicated that the level of coping resources and psychosocial difficulties in the transition changed significantly after the program and those changes were still maintained after a month in the experimental group. However, there were no statistically significant changes on job-search burnout and career-adaptability in all groups. The implication and limitation of the study and the suggestions for the future studies were discussed.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.43-55
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• 2008

This study examines the effect of group-counseling programs for parents of children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on parenting stress, parenting competence, and symptoms related to ADHD. For this study, 9 parents of children with ADHD were selected as an experimental group that participated in a group-counseling program and another 9 parents of children with ADHD for a control group that participated in a group of free conversation without a program. The program consisted of 9 sessions (a 70 minute meeting per session) with 2 sessions a week. Data were analyzed by a paired t-test and independent samples t-test, using SPSS program packages. Results showed significant before and after differences in the degree of parenting competence and that Parenting competence was improved with the experimental group.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.302-310
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• 2022

This study examined the results obtained using the text mining method for research trends related to learning counseling among adolescents and suggested subsequent research directions. The top 1 and 2 of Korean youth concerns are learning and career paths. Topic modeling analysis was conducted using text mining techniques that can minimize researcher's subjectivity and prejudice for 201 academic papers above KCI registration candidates through RISS with keywords such as Learning Counseling and Academic Counseling. Learning counseling topic results showed counseling experience [topic 1], group counseling research [topic 2], parent counseling [topic 3], and learning technology program development [topic 4]. Research related to learning counseling is developing counseling for emotional stability. Group counseling, parent counseling, and learning technology programs. Learning counseling to solve adolescents' concerns is expected to continue research on integrated support through psychological emotion, parent counseling, and collaboration with learning technology experts.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.571-577
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• 2016

Recently problems and issues of career-interrupted women were emerging as major social agenda in modern general and female society. This study modified and restructured REBT career group counseling and intended to testify the effects of REBT career group counseling program on self-efficacy and career attitude maturity of career discontinued married women in thirties. The subjects were career-interrupted married women in thirties living in J city, who have elementary school students as their children and applied to our study with 3 groups. 45 subjects were randomly assigned to experimental group(REBT Group), control group1(education group for vocational counselor) and control group2(general parental education group) by the number of 15. To assess effects of 3 groups, pre-test and post-test were carried out. Results showed that the participants of REBT group showed more self-efficacy, social efficacy and total self-efficacy scores than them of 2 control groups. And they had tendency to have more sense of reality, preparedness and total career attitude maturity scores. It seems that REBT career counseling program changed their irrational beliefs into rational beliefs about course and career, increasing their self-efficacy and career attitude maturity. The meaning, limitation and future tasks were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.532-545
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• 2019

The objective of this study is to find out the effect of the secondary traumatic stress prevention program for counselors at child protection agencies. The quasi-experiment design was used for pre-test, post-test, and for follow-up test, performed 3 months after the program. Experimental group consisted of 9 counselors, while the comparison group consisted of 10 counselors. As a result, it was revealed that secondary traumatic stress prevention program was effective in decreasing the secondary traumatic stress and depression of the counselors, and also effective in increasing stress coping even though it was not statistically significant. Follow-up test did not present statistically significant changes in secondary traumatic stress, depression, and stress coping. It was found that, to achieve continued effect of the program, much longer and sustained program is required. Based on these findings, the necessity and application of the secondary traumatic stress prevention program were suggested.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.189-197
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• 2018

The study aims to examine the availability of figure therapy in convergence perspective by verifying the effectiveness of the figure therapy programs on the psychological exhaustion and ego resilience of counselors. For the purpose, this study examine the changes of psychological exhaustion and ego resilience of participated counselors from 11 clients of general counseling center in 2 areas of Gyeonggi through the independent sample t-test and the corresponding sample t-test based on group figure therapy programs. As a result, there was a slight difference in the mean value of psychological exhaustion, and the mean of ego resilience has increased. In addition, the mean value of confidence and interpersonal efficiency, which is a sub factor of ego resilience, has increased and showed statistical significance. Based on the result, the study will be applied as a basic data of developing various figure therapy programs to improve the self resilience of counselors.