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Sexual Abuse

With guest Rick Lecuyer, Michael explores the topic of sexual abuse with the rape story in 2 Samuel as the backdrop. Canadian statistics released in 2011, based on 2009 police reported data, suggested that children and youth under 18 were more likely to be sexually victimized by someone they knew – in 85% of cases…

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Is Christian Counselling Effective in Helping Couples?

Christian Counselling is now growing in terms of its popularity all around the world. Gone are the days when anything to do with religion was looked upon by psychologists and counsellors as being detrimental to one’s mental health. A plethora of studies have now shown that spiritual belief, a belief in a power greater than…

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Forgiveness

Description Forgiveness involves mental, motivational, and emotional changes in a victim after experiencing a transgression or a violation of physical, emotional, or psychological boundaries. Forgiveness has been defined as being of two types, decisional and emotional forgiveness (Worthington, 2003). Decisional forgiveness is making a behavioral intention statement that gives up pursuit of revenge and intends…

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Anger

Description Anger is a God-given emotion that can be experienced and expressed in ways that can be healthy or unhealthy. The Bible has a lot to say about the emotion of anger. In fact, next to love, anger is the most frequently mentioned emotion in the Bible (Oliver & Oliver, 2007). It is first mentioned…

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