Pastoral Counseling and Care for People with Depression That Leads to Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation

Pastoral counseling and care are essential efforts for people with depression that leads to self-harm and suicide. Therefore, patients should get full and continuous recovery by restoring themselves through rational thinking and gaining hope and spirit to live a normal life. This study is based on a literature review. It concludes that depression is a serious mental illness that should be handled properly and ideally. In addition, patients can have proper recovery and reconciliation. Finally, this research is expected to contribute to solving the problem of people with depression that leads to self-harm and suicide by providing an action to value, forgive, and love themselves based on the given steps of pastoral counseling and care.