{"product_id":"marriage-counseling-a-christian-approach-to-counseling-couples-9780830817696","title":"Marriage Counseling: A Christian Approach to Counseling Couples","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarriages are in trouble today. That is clear. Effective mothods of combating this trend are less evident. Counselors, pastors and social workers need more than mere theories or mere moralizing. They need a practical and comprehensive model for understanding couples and their problems. They need a throughly Christian perspective that is biblical, compassionate and human.Everett Worthington provides this in an integrated, biblically based theory of marriage and marriage therapy with analysis at three levels: the individual, the couple and the family. The model he has constructed, with techniques drawn from the major psychological schools, is standard enough to guide counselors in actual interventions and powerful enough to produce change.A thoroughgoing overview of the assessment process includes practical, workable guidelines for: creating realistic, mutually-agreeable goals for counselor and clients; estimating the number of sessions needed to reach those goals; and planning the actual assessment, intervention and termination sessions.Next Worthington offers specific techniques for enhancing cooperative change, intimacy, communication, conflict resolution and forgiveness within the marriage. But keeping couples from slipping back into old patterns is one of the counselor's most difficult tasks. So Worthington concludes with suggestions for solidifying change and effectively concluding the counseling relationship.Here is a text that will be a standard for counselors, pastors and mental health professionals in the years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverett L. Worthington Jr. (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and former executive director of the Templeton Foundation's A Campaign for Forgiveness Research. Worthington has studied forgiveness since the 1980s and has published more than two hundred articles and papers on forgiveness, marriage and family, psychotherapy and virtue in a wide variety of journals and magazines. He was the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eMarriage and Family: A Christian Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals. He has appeared on \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America, \u003c\/i\u003e CNN and \u003ci\u003eThe 700 Club\u003c\/i\u003e and been featured in award-winning documentary movies on forgiveness such as \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Forgiveness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Big Question.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of seventeen books including \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Forgiveness, Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForgiving and Reconciling.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692917461266,"sku":"9780830817696","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d45c610c-302d-46e4-9481-357ceef3e8ad.jpg?v=1734138025","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marriage-counseling-a-christian-approach-to-counseling-couples-9780830817696","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}