한국청소년의 학업 중압감 사례와 성경적 상담을 통한 신앙지도

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to suggest the principles of Biblical counseling concerning the mental stresses prevalent in Korean students due to their severe academic pressures to prepare for admission to college. This dissertation will provide a case study of a youth group and their parents in a local church, and will analyze the results of counseling with them by using the principles of biblical counseling, developed to fit with their conditions. In Korean society, the college from which one graduate is more important than a different society can ever imagine. This emphasis on college results in overheated competitions in the entrance examination. Teenagers’ academic pressures and their consequent mental problems have raised a grievous concern in the multiple sectors of society, including the government, social institutions, and private parties. They have suggested and implemented various solutions. Despite these efforts, however, juvenile delinquency is steadily increasing and its character is getting worse. Furthermore, it becomes more difficult to find effective measures to this problem. Teenagers’ inordinate academic pressures also create a negative effect on local churches. Many youth group members quit weekday Bible studies and worship services. Some of them do not regularly attend Sunday worship service because they have to go to private tutoring centers. Christian parents, except for those who are devoted to Christian faith and practice, ignore their children’s decision not to go to church on Sunday. This trend gradually weakens youth group activities, and in some cases this even leads to the collapse of youth group in local churches. Unfortunately, many churches respond to this problem simplistically. Most churches focus on evangelism or changing worship liturgy in order to increase church attendance. Most of all churches are more interested in church attendance than in helping them in real life. Against this superficial approach to which churches may easily resort, this study suggests an alternative biblical principle by which churches may recognize that teenagers do suffer from inordinate academic pressures and mental stress, and they may understand the nature of their suffering and may receive by means of biblical counseling. Heart Model, one of biblical counselling, is adapted and analysed with a successful case study. It is practised with methods of L.K.S.D.(Love, Know, Speak, Do).