한국윤리교육학회

For the improvement of the anger control ability, there are two representative measures: description and prescription. Presenting an anger adjustment program in ethical councelling is more applicable in valuable prescription than factual description. While a descriptive approach to anger is an objective understanding on anger without a value judgement, an ethical councelling has a prescriptive nature that shows right direction by understanding and interpreting people with ethics as a standard of judgement. An ethical councelling is a way of councelling based on ethics. A consultant helps clients by offering standards of right behavior. Anger has recognitive, physiological, social and behavioral aspects, which requires both descriptive and prescriptive approach. However, in the ethical councelling, the program for improving anger control ability has a main purpose on presenting a model of the prescriptive anger adjustment process based on ethical perspective. In this article, the meaning of anger and ethical understanding of anger are discussed. There are two contrasting standpoints over the anger. One is the idea of Aristotle that maintains the need of anger, and the other is the idea of Seneca that anger should be removed from the root. For not many consulting methods were presented in ethical perspective, in this article, anger management program is introduced for the ethical understanding over anger and the application of ethics on the ethical councelling,