박인혜상담사
KCI
KISS
The purpose of this study is to consider a counselee who experiences codependence as an adult child in dysfunctional families from the Christian perspective, focusing on counseling relationships. This study is meaningful in exploring how the counselee in codependence could experience actual counseling relationships and making suggestion on how Christian counseling could help the counselee. The research problems for this study are to examine what the counselee’s experience of codependence is like in real life, to explore how the experience of counselee appears in the counseling relationship, and to discuss what the core healing factors and therapeutic meanings in counseling relationships are through the case analysis. from a biblical point of view. A single case study was performed qualitatively using the research method of biblical meaning of ‘mind’ and the biblical approach of cognitive therapy change model presented by Jun Kim (2008). According to the result, the codepenency experience of the adult child was revealed in actual counseling relationships as aspects of communication difficulty, identity problem, and lack of intimacy. The counseling intervention strategies were the quest stage of incarnation empathy and communication, the insight stage of identifying myself as the God’s beloved child, and the practice stage of trusting that who I am is the perfect grace of God. This study suggested additional studies with multiple cases in future.
