Wisdom from Korean Reentry Counseling Professionals: A Phenomenological Study of the Reentry Process
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Wisdom from Korean Reentry Counseling Professionals: A Phenomenological Study of the Reentry Process Ae-Kyung Jung & Hang-Shim Lee & Alejandro Morales
Published online: 20 October 2012 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Abstract The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the common experience of Korean counseling professionals who returned to South Korea after obtaining their doctoral degrees in the United States. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Korean counseling professionals to understand their cross-cultural experience. The data were analyzed by phenomenological methods of inquiry. Seven themes emerged from the analyses: Reminiscence, Differences and Comparisons, Benefits, Challenges, Coping, Application and Modification, and Meaning. The findings suggested how the setting and context in which the reentry process occurred contributed to the participants’ experience as well as the essence of the reentry process. Implications of the results are discussed in the light of cross-cultural counseling and for future research and practice. Keywords Reentry . Reacculturation . Cross-cultural experience . Phenomenological study . Counseling professionals
Introduction Counseling and counseling psychology are becoming popular fields of study in different countries. Scholars are focusing on how to internationalize counseling psychology by incorporating indigenous or native cultures and preventing the colonization of U.S.-based models (Leung 2003; Norsworthy 2006; Pedersen 1999; Norsworthy et al. 2009). Due to the globalization of counseling psychology, students from all parts of the world are pursuing Ae-Kyung Jung and Hang-Shim Lee contributed equally to this work.
A.-K. Jung (*) : H.-S. Lee : A. Morales Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri, 9 Hill Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA e-mail: [email protected] H.-S. Lee e-mail: [email protected] A. Morales e-mail: [email protected]
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doctoral degrees in the U.S., and then either working in the U.S. after graduation or returning to their home countries soon after graduation. While many studies have investigated the adjustment process of international students in the U.S., the reentry experiences of international counseling professionals to their home locations have drawn less attention. International counseling professionals trained in the U.S. are making significant contributions to counseling and psychology fields in their home countries. Because of their research training, clinical knowledge, and areas of expertise, graduates are often obtaining positions in academia (e.g., Leung 2003; Wang and Heppner 2009). Given that a number of international counseling professionals1 return to their home country after receiving their degrees in the U.S., appreciation of the reentry process is important to understand the cross-cultural experiences as well as the influence of training in the U.S. In particular, reentr
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