Helping Children with Shame: Resting in God’s Approval
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling comes from internal or external pressures, children need help to understand what to do with their feelings of inadequacy and rejection.
Counselor and author Edward T. Welch helps counselors and parents see how shame is addressed in Scripture and how the Lord looks on struggling children with compassion and acceptance. He demonstrates how to connect a child's story of shame to the themes of Scripture so that a child can put words to his or her experience and see that Jesus knows our name, clothes us with dignity, and gives us his reputation.
- Title: Helping Children with Shame: Resting in God’s Approval
- Author: Edward T. Welch
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 24
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Shame › Religious aspects--Christianity; Shame in children; Shame in the Bible
- ISBNs: 9781645070849, 9781645070856, 1645070840, 1645070859
- Resource ID: LLS:HLPNGCHLDRNSHM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-17T20:44:15Z
Edward T. Welch (PhD, University of Utah) is a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, where he has served since 1981. He holds a doctor of philosophy in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and a master of divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed is a licensed psychologist and has been active in local church ministry for decades. He has been counseling for more than 35 years and has written extensively on the topics of depression, fear, and addictions. He has written numerous books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small (P&R Publishing, 1997), Shame Interrupted (New Growth Press, 2012), Side by Side (Crossway, 2015), and Created to Draw Near (Crossway, 2020). He blogs regularly at CCEF.org.