Counselling Christian women on how to deal with domestic violence:
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Main Author: Baker, Lynne M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bowen Hills, Qld. Australian Academic Press 2010
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Preface; How to use this book; A Victim's Voice; Chapter 1: Behind the Scenes; Chapter 2: People Like Us; Chapter 3: An Unrelenting Cycle; Chapter 4: Perpetrators and the Pursuit of Power; Chapter 5: Discovering Forgiveness; Chapter 6: Breaking the Covenant; Chapter 7: Husband and Shepherd; Chapter 8: A Faith for Coping; Chapter 9: Listening to the Voice of Experience; Chapter 10: Final Words; References
This book explores women's experiences of physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, financial, and spiritual abuse at the hands of their perpetrator husbands who claim themselves to be good Christians. Through extensive interviews combined with academic research, the reader learns how counseling can be effective through the encouragement of a variety of religious and non-religious coping strategies. Of interest to victims of domestic abuse, as well as to the members of the clergy, psychologists, and counsellors
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1921513519
9781921513510

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