The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality & Relationship Counseling
Overview
One of the foremost counseling needs of our day is help with sexuality and relationship issues. Those who are faced with such challenging concerns can readily use expert help with the problems that people bring to them. The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counseling provides the answers.
This guide gives pastors, counselors, and everyday believers the information they need to help congregants, clients, and friends with their most intimate issues.
- Discusses topics such as infidelity, forgiveness, and trust
- Addresses gender identity issues, sexual expectations, and satisfaction
- Provides insight on sexual addictions
Top Highlights
“Forgiveness means that the victim is choosing not to allow the hurt and pain to control or dominate his life.” (Page 144)
“Trust is the most important ingredient in any relationship” (Page 143)
“Paul wrote that married couples could withhold sex from each other only for a time and only for the purpose of fasting and prayer (1 Cor. 7:5).” (Page 9)
“Forgiveness is the foundation for rebuilding trust in a relationship that’s been broken” (Page 143)
“Others use sex to take advantage of others in relationships by being demeaning or demanding or by withholding sex to punish and manipulate.” (Page 9)
If you do relationship counseling of any kind, you’ll want to have this book as a handy resource. It’s filled with practical helps.
—Les Parrott, founder, Center for Relationship Development, Seattle Pacific University
Practical and easy to use. You can never get enough good advice about sex. Drs. Clinton and Laaser have done a great job.
—Kevin Leman, author and speaker
This is a much-needed tool for helping couples and individuals with sexual questions and issues, as well as understanding the impact you can bring to their relationship.
—John Trent, president, Strong Families
- Title: The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counseling
- Authors: Tim Clinton, Mark Laaser
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Sex › Religious aspects--Christianity--Handbooks, manuals, etc; Pastoral counseling › Handbooks, manuals, etc; Counseling › Handbooks, manuals, etc
- ISBNs: 9781441255792, 9780801072369, 1441255796, 0801072360
- Resource ID: LLS:QCKRFGDSXLTRLTSHP
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:32:03Z
Mark Laaser is an internationally-known author and speaker who has written six books, including Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction. He and his wife, Debbie, are the founders of Faithful and True Ministries and the Laaser Center for the Family in Minnesota.
Tim Clinton is the president of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), executive director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies, professor of counseling and pastoral care at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed professional counselor. He’s the author or editor of 14 books including Caring for People God’s Way.