Abstract
This study designed and developed a mobile counseling program for disable persons and their families by making the best use of advantages of smart devices and explored the effects. The counseling program developed in the study went through t...
Abstract
This study designed and developed a mobile counseling program for disable persons and their families by making the best use of advantages of smart devices and explored the effects. The counseling program developed in the study went through the process to investigate the precedent studies to compose the contents required for disable persons and their families and develop the program by conducting the prior needs investigation. It explored what counseling contents disable persons and their families consult with through the developed program, checked their feelings and satisfaction when they participated in it, and found the counseling effects.
As for subjects for inquiry, first, how can the mobile counseling program for disable persons and their families be composed? Second, how are the effects of the mobile counseling program for disable persons and their families?
As for the procedure to develop the web program, first, investigation of precedent studies and prior needs was carried out to develop the web application of the mobile disabled family counseling program. Second, the counseling web was developed with PHP and JAVA programs. As for the research methods, first, satisfaction research of program participants was carried out and the frequency analysis of the investigated data was done by using SPSS 18.0 for windows program. Second, reviews of participants who experienced counseling were gotten and the effects were explored to supplement reliability and limits of the quantitative analysis.
It was intended for the 23 persons who actually requested mobile counseling in the 27 clients who joined the mobile disabled family counseling program as members for a month on Oct. 2013. The procedure to explore the effects of the mobile disabled family counseling program is as follow: First, the mobile disabled family counseling program was promoted through acquaintances, Kakao Story, and Kakao Talk and participants were collected for a month on Oct. 2013. Second, as for the managers, counselors were assigned to the 23 persons who requested counseling by classifying them into each other according to pieces of counseling writing and counseling fields. Third, the counselors who were assigned to counseling carried it out for 50 to 60 minutes. Fourth, satisfaction the 22 persons who participated in the program in the 23 clients who participated in counseling were investigated. And the effects were explored by receiving reviews about participation in counseling from the 11 clients who consulted for many sessions.
The research results are as follow: First, the mobile disabled family counseling program can be found to play a huge role in improving the situations that were difficult for disable persons and families to get counseling by utilizing mobility, convenience, and accessibility which are the advantages of smart devices. Second, the mobile disabled family counseling program has found to be effective for giving disable persons and families psychological well-being and making them change cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally after getting counseling.