Healing for Hurting Hearts: A Handbook for Counseling Children and Youth in Crisis

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Of the 2.2 billion children in the world, 1.5 billion – two thirds – are children at risk or in crisis. They are precious children who have been subjected to the traumatic experiences of neglect, abuse, abandonment, and exploration. Such trauma inflicts physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds that, unaddressed, leaves scars that last a lifetime. Healing their emotional pains can be more difficult than healing their physical wounds. In fact, long-term emotional wounding often prevents children from fulfilling their God-created purpose and destroys their ability to have a meaningful and healthy relationships, even with the Savior.

With its practical and biblically centered instruction on counseling children and youth in crisis, Healing for Hurting Hearts equips leaders to guide the children they serve through the healing process in order to help them achieve lives that are more abundant. Reclaiming physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness and, ultimately, hope for the future is within reach for these deeply wounded children. Above all, the strategies and methods outlined in this book are imbued with faith in the Healer who mends broken hearts.

ISBN: 9781619580848