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KMID : 1159120180250020201
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Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology
2018 Volume.25 No. 2 p.201 ~ p.224
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Career Settlement Counseling Process of North Korean Refugees: A Qualitative Analysis
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Keum Myoung-Ja
Kim Young-In
Kim Jee-Hyang
Nam Jin-Ae
Seo Gii-Ok
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Abstract
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The goal of this study was to understand the career settlement process of North Korean refugees, specifically young adult males, as they undergo counseling in local Hana centers. The following results stem from a grounded theory analysis of 117 counseling sessions conducted by 3 counselors; seven cases total. Through open coding, 115 concepts with 35 subcategories and 12 upper categories were identified. Via axial coding, a paradigm of career settlement process was suggested: (a) causal condition that they fled from North Korea), (b) context that they were in trauma symptoms, cultural sense of difference, and lack of personal/social resources (c) main phenomena indicative of ambivalent psychological confusion toward career. (d) various counseling interventions specific to clients’ psychology, daily life, career, and out-reach by refugee counselors (e) Through interaction with the interventions, they got to their realistic understanding, psychological stability, and fit-for purpose career behaviors, (f) consequences of career decision and career settlement. The necessity of coping with trauma and psychological issues in order to achieve career settlement and limits of this research are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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male young adult North Korean refugee, North Korean refugee counselor, career-settlement process
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