외국인 유학생 내담자의 자살을 겪은 유학생 상담자의 경험에 대한 질적연구

Abstract

Objectives This study was conducted to examine the difficulties of international student counselors who suffered suicide of a foreign student client and their experiences in the process of overcoming them.
 Methods An in-depth interview was conducted with a total of 9 counselors at the university counseling centers, and analyzed according to the consensual qualitative research method(CQR). Study participants were selected through significant sampling and snowball sampling.
 Results A total of 7 areas, 14 categories, and 57 subcategories were derived. Seven of these areas were “characteristics of the client's suicide-related experience,” “factors affecting the client's suicide experience,” “emotions experienced in counseling,” “difficulties experienced in counseling,” “experience after counseling,” and “expectations for multicultural crisis counseling.”
 Conclusions This study has the implication of expanding the scope of research related to domestic international student counselors, which is still in its early stages by confirming the characteristics of suicide crisis intervention in international student counseling, and is worth being used to lay the foundation for the development and protection system of international student counselors.