Description
The physical and mental pain of abuse—many children and
adults in our churches regularly suffer that pain in their own homes! Now, Abuse in the Family, part of the Helping
Others in Crisis series, shows you how to identify victims and help them toward
healing. Abuse in the Family
carefully deals with the problem of child abuse and neglect, incest, and wife
beating.
Abuse in the Family will equip you to
help victims overcome the painful scars of past or present abuse. You’ll learn
how to guide victims toward emotional and spiritual wholeness and how to
increase sensitivity in your church to the problem of abuse.
In Abuse in the Family, author Karen Burton
Mains:
- Acquaints you with the
facts of abuse in the family.
- Prepares you for
situations you may encounter.
- Investigates questions
victims often ask.
- Advises you of effective
counseling patterns to follow.
- Enables you to address
the problem of family abuse in your church.
- Explores Scriptural
teaching and its application.
- Informs you of
significant laws.
- Guides you to resources
for further reading.
Karen Burton Mains co-hosts a nationwide radio ministry with
her husband, David Mains—Director of the Chapel
of the Air. Karen is also the chairperson of Women for Christ, a
Chicago-area retreat ministry. She and Maxine Hancock coauthored another book
on abuse, Child Sexual Abuse: A Hope for
Healing.
