assignment, I have chosen to breakdown some of the basic issues that cause a lack of intimacy and sex with marriages. I also intend to use proven counseling methods to help Christian counselors battle this issue within married couples. The title of the paper will be: The Necessity for Sexual Intimacy in Marriage. From pastoral experience, counseling married couples having difficulties in their marriage usually stems from a lack of intimacy. Both husband and wife for various reasons have drawn away from
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------------------------------------------------- LIFC 302 Marriage Coaching Course Description An examination and analysis of professional coaching applications that serve marital relationship concerns. The course covers marital issues from a Christian worldview with special attention given to a biblical foundation of marriage coaching and differences between coaching and counseling models. Rationale As a basis for their work, marriage coaches should have a thorough understanding of coaching
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Being a divorced Catholic, daughter, and friend I have seen what people, your fellow church parishioners, and family and friends will say about you, or about your divorce. Many of them will look down on you, but why should they when you were only trying to do right by your family, your children, and your fellow church parishioners, in the end. The main statement of sorts that you will hear is what about the children. Then you’ll hear questions about your personal judgment. Then religion and questioning
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The purpose of the following paper is to display understanding and interpretation of counseling theory into personal practice and learning. In this paper, I will demonstrate awareness of multicultural competence through a depiction of a fictional client as well as of myself as the counselor using Hays’ (2007) ADDRESSING model. I will apply Feminist Therapy as the foundational theory to my approach and two additional theories including solution focused and cognitive behavioral therapy to the fictional
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many challenges that couples and families are faced with, they may find themselves dealing with problems and situations that they are unsure how to resolve. It is during this time, couples or families may seek out the help of marriage therapist. The purpose of this paper is to examine a brief history and the development of marriage and family therapy, and its importance to the counseling field. Five aspects of this field will be discussed: roles of marriage and family therapist, training and licensure
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addressing the blended families that are in need of help because the single parent is so prevalent and many people are not going into marriage of blended families with an awareness of how to do this effectively. Here are some shocking, but not unbelievable statistics: 1. “Forty two percent of adults are in a step relationship of some kind. 2. Thirty percent of marriages to attend Family Life’s Weekend to Remember marriage getaways are in blended families. 3. Two-thirds of marriages where one or both
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students that no matter what their family life is like and no matter what their past is, they are responsible for their actions and they can break free from the norm in their family. 2.) Quote: “The central issue boils down to the question: Is the fundamental problem of
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decades of experience in both higher education and in Christian counseling, having also served previously as a pastor and professor of counseling. SUMMARY In his book Strengthening Marital Intimacy, Ron Hawkins provides a useful, highly readable, and solidly biblical discussion of the importance of marital intimacy as well as ways for couples to strengthen that intimacy. The book is written for Christian couples aiming to improve their marriage and marital intimacy, though the book is written a
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ST. PAUL’S UNIVERSITY (NKR. CAMPUS) CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AFFECTING THE INSTITUTION OF FAMILY AND THEIR SOLUTIONS STUDENT NAME & ID: JOSIAH O. SANDE: BBAM/NKR/2004/15 COURSE TITLE: CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW COURSE CODE: UCC101 LECTURER: DAVID KANYONI DATE: 13TH NOVEMBER, 2014 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AFFECTING THE INSTITUITION OF FAMILY AND THEIR SOLUTIONS Abstract Since the discovery of oil, development of trade, quest for education, technological
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Integrated Christian” counseling, whether people call it that or not, is also commonly found. These are good Christian people who have taken their secular degrees and training and “integrated” them with Scripture and prayer as they apply them to counseling hurting people. Many of them are very well intentioned and believe they are providing “the best of both worlds”, but they are NOT providing real, authentic Biblical counseling. They, in essence, try to “smush together” Scripture and secular psychology
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