Buddhist Counseling: Challenging competency for Nursing Instructors

การให้คำปรึกษาเชิงพุทธ : สมรรถนะที่ท้าทายสำหรับอาจารย์พยาบาล

Abstract

Buddhist Counseling is a body of knowledge in counseling psychology that combines and synthesizes the knowledge of western psychology theory with Buddhist principles of the Eastern world. It is an approach to learn and practise until crystallization by using Buddhist principles as a basic conceptual framework for working to understand the real world, and managing everything that happens as a matter of fact through the 4 Noble Truths as a roadmap to get out of the problems. Accordingly, nurse instructors are required to act as both class teachers and advisors, which is  challenging the competency and playing an important role in helping and deciding to solve the problems for nursing students. Especially those caused by the stress of studying theories and pressuring to change roles from caretakers to become caregivers of patients with physical, mental and social ailments in nursing practice. In addition, the senior coexistence system (seniority) causes the students’s stress and anxiety from unconsciously facing conditions. Counseling in Buddhist psychology results in a change within the learners themselves. According to the process of consulting with the order of counseling following to the Noble Truths: suffering (problems), Samudaya (causes of problems), Nirodha (cessation of sufferings), and Path (method for cessation of suffering), it can lead to behavior modification and internally improve the life quality of nursing students.