심리상담법 제정의 필요성과 방향

Humans are beings who can be happy when their minds are stable and healthy. One of the most effective ways to restore and maintain human mental health is psychological counseling. Psychological counseling refers to an activity in which an expert with professional knowledge and counseling experience in human psychology restores psychological health through examination and conversation with the client. Modern society is a society that is prone to psychological wounds, so the importance of psychological counseling is being highlighted. Therefore, the state and local governments must recognize the people's right to receive psychological counseling as a fundamental right under the Constitution and strive to guarantee it to the maximum extent possible. Based on this, the Basic Act on Psychological Counseling should be enacted so that the people can receive psychological counseling more stably and smoothly. The Framework Act on Psychological Counseling is a model that guarantees private psychological counseling activities autonomously based on the autonomous model, but recognizes the minimum intervention of the state to prevent illegal acts. In addition, the state and local governments should prepare a system that can provide psychological counseling at a minimum cost to the socially vulnerable. To this end, following the Basic Act on Psychological Counseling, laws on individual counseling areas should be enacted. While revitalizing private psychological counseling through such work, the state and local governments should continue to make up for the vacuum in psychological counseling.