Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide basis for a suitable counseling model to our culture. The characteristic of the Korean who live in the Orient is different from Western people in various aspects. For that reason, it is a problem to accept unconditionally the counseling approaches which have been developed in Western culture. To resolve such a problem, our collectivism which has been influenced by Confucianism was compared with Western individualism. Because they give much more weight on the harmony among people, they regard a person's personality as an important thing rather than a man's ability or achievement. Thus the counselor who lives in Korea should deal with all the intra and extra world of a client because our society is a collective community. That is, the counselor should deal with interpersonal relations as well as an intra-psychic conflict. The researcher also attempts to explain how to give counsel to the each of two clients in Reality Dynamic Counseling approach which is proposed for the Korean in this study. Moreover, it is contented that the counselor should assume the attitude of an elder in attempting Reality Dynamic Counseling. The ideal attitude of an elder in this approach can be taken out from a stern father and an affectionate mother who have been our ideal parent traditionally.