Abstract

This is a basic study for the culture-oriented counseling and life history study to understand that the child of the low-income bracket and a family of single parent copes with crisises. The goal of this study is to figure out an application of counseling for the child by focusing on the strategies that a child of the low-income bracket and a family of single parent copes with crisises and finding out the crisises he experiences, the meaning of the crisises and process that he copes with crisises. These are the research problems of this study. (1) What crisises does a child of the low-income bracket and a family of single parent has and what does it mean to him? (2) What strategies does a child of the low-income bracket and family of single parent has and why does he do those things? (3) What suggestion does this study give to the counseling for the child of the low-income bracket and a family of single parent? On the mentioned result of the study above, a counselor has to know the physical, emotional, and cognitive crisises, the motive of coping with the crisises and the strategies of coping with the crisises of the child of the low-income bracket and a family of single parent at pre-entrylevel in order to prepare the culture-oriented counseling. His effort to cope with the crisises is 'being like others', so we need to help him be from 'estrangement' to 'liberation', not from 'difference' to 'same'.