다문화가족 집단 상담프로그램 참여에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study aims to elicit positive communication from multicultural family couples in operating a group counseling program for multicultural families. This study targets multicultural family members. Research participants are married immigrant women and their Korean husbands. Two (2) hours are spent per session every week: six sessions in total. The number of multicultural families who participated in this program is 12 and the married immigrant women came from China, Japan, Thailand, and Phillippines and two Korean husbands who had a wife from Thailand were included. As for research methodology, counseling specialists participated in the group counseling program every session as active participants and kept a log of participatory observation across all processes and made an analysis based on this. The group counseling program for multicultural families was based on communication and Imago couple communication theory. As a result, it brought about changes in communication between couples based on mutual understanding and especially acquired communication methods between multicultural families using researcher’s direct cognitive modeling as requested by those who are highly interested in their children. This study is significant in that it improved communication ability between multicultural families, especially couples.