Abstract:
This research was of the three objectives, viz. (1) to study psychological counseling according to Western concepts; (2) to study Buddhist psychological counseling; and (3) to recommend knowledge and counseling process in Buddhist Psychology. This research is a qualitative one with documents studied analyzed, and synthesized Buddhist Psychology with psychological counseling.
Findings of the research study were as follow:
Individual living in present society has been pressured mainly by economic,Environment, life leading, value, behavior and diseases, etc. causing stress and become psychological disorders such as depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder, personality disorder, substance use disorder, etc. holistically called as psychosis. It is necessary to prevent and to treat the patients with psychiatric method. There must be organized clinical psychiatry serving as psychological counseling rendered by psychiatric physicians.
The word "mental health" means a status of mind in happiness, realizing one selfs capacity, able to adjust himself at a chaotic life, and capable to work for his own forsake as well as others in society. Normal or good mental health enables a man to face with difficult problem and to wipe out anxiety, dare to cope with exact environs, adjust and improve himself in good condition. Regarding spoilt mental health, it causes to the one with hard life problems, anxious, unmindful, flurry and worry. All these states of patients could be cured by right and suitable treatment. Thus the treatment is focused on helping the patients realize and accept themselves and others, understand true causes of problem, capable to face with difficulty, able to find the way to solve the problem, changing their behavior, until to lead their life smoothly, valuably, and meaningfully.
In the light of Buddhist psychology, original true mind is pure, but impure with mental defilements which are unwholesome. Thus a person is to be tamed with threefold training- morality, mentality, and wisdom. Buddhist psychological counseling process starts from counseling factors, i.e, counselor, complied with knowledge and competence, loving kindness, and non-return service; counselee, in the state of being cured and recovered; and counseling method coping with the Four Noble Truths as thinking procedure. In this research, examples were categorized into the lost, depressive and aggressive disorder, each case derived from different kind of problem and suffering. The Buddha soothed them beginning with the convince those people to accept the fact and truth the naturally append. With his words of soothing and encouragement, all the people were recalled with mindfulness and led their life in the good conditions. To sum up, Buddhist psychology comprises of suitable process within the frame of the Four Noble Truths. All the counselee realize the life value, being harmless to their life and ready to live happily with strong mind, furthermore: its purpose is not only to cure ill-mental health but also to lift up a person's mind to the state of final attainment.
Keywords: Psychological counseling, Buddhist Psychology, Psychotherapy