Abstract

A client's suicide is fearful and painful experience for the counselor. Although every effort is made to prevent client suicide, client suicide does occur and this is a limitation that must be accepted in the counselor's professional field. Although it is important to recognize counselors who meet suicidal clients as suicide survivors and to expand study on the counselor's experiences, domestic studies have not been actively conducted. Therefore, this study attempted to provide suggestions for future study by reviewing the domestic and overseas study literature on the experiences of counselors who met suicidal clients. For this purpose, studies were selected to explore the experiences of counselors after client suicide. According to the subject, the following points were discussed: 1) The actual situation of the client's suicide experience; 2) The effect of the client suicide on the counselor; 3) Coping and overcoming(recovery) after the client's suicide; and 4) Summarization of the contents as the necessary support and post-intervention measures for counselors who have experienced client suicide. Based on these contents, a research method was proposed for the counselor who experiences client suicide in the domestic counseling scene.