A Study of the Impact of Pastoral Counseling on Depression~~~An Inner Healing Model

• Main Authors: Ming-Shu Lee, 李明姝
• Other Authors: Peter Jen Der Pan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01620252691842741323

碩士 === 中原大學 === 心理學研究所 === 98 === The theme of this study was to discover the impact and the experience on depression by Christian pastoral counseling. The main purpose of this study was to explore the change process of the counselees, when the counselor used the inner healing model of pastoral counseling in the counseling process. Four counselees, including Christians or Christian seekers, who were depressed, were transferred for the study. The counselor, a female Christian, was trained to use the inner healing and to apply this technique in the counseling process. Each counselee received 4-6 sessions of brief counseling from the counselor. The whole process of each counseling session was taped and transcribed to verbatim. After completing every 2 counseling sessions, the counselee was interviewed for collecting data about the experiences from the counseling session. The qualitative analysis method was used to analyze the functions and enlightenings of the Holy Spirit in pastoral counseling, the inner healing events, the counselees’ inner healing process, and its impacts on the counselees in different dimensions. The results indicated: 1. Various functions and enlightenings of the Holy Spirit were discovered, 4 counselees and the counselor experienced 18 enlightenings totally. 2. Four counselees experienced 22 inner healing events inspired by the Holy Spirit. 3. Five stages of the inner healing process were identified. 4. Influences and transformations on the counselees on relationships with God, others, things and self respectively were discovered. 5. A significant difference was found in comparison on the pre-test and post-test of BDI and BHS on four counselees. Finally, based on the findings of this study, suggestions for future studies and implications were made.