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Unlocking Your Family Patterns: Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past

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Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether you're just not sure).

Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health.

Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Dysfunctional Families of the Bible

1. David and His Family Tree — Earl Henslin, Psy.D.

2. Isaac and His Family Tree — Dave Carder, MA.

3. Jesus Had Family Issues Too — Earl Henslin, Psy.D.

Part 2 Contributing Factors in Family Dysfunction

4. Passing the Torch: The Multigenerational Transmission Process — Dave Carder, MA.

5. Guilt-ridden Baggage: The Role of Religious Shame — Earl Henslin, Psy.D.

6. Blest Be the Tie That Binds: Local Church "Family" Patterns — Dave Carder, MA.

Part 3 Family Health: How to Do It Right When You Learned It Wrong

7. Learning to Bond—John Townsend, Ph.D.

8. Learning to Set Boundaries — John Townsend, Ph.D.

9. Learning About Goodness/Badness — Henry Cloud, Ph.D.

10. Learning to Achieve Adulthood — Henry Cloud, Ph.D.

11. Facing Life's "Unfair Assignments" — Dave Carder, MA

Appendix A:

Helping the Helpers: Dysfunctional Families in "The Ministry" — Alice Brawand, MA.

Appendix B:

Resource List from the Authors        

Appendix C:

Patterns Predicting Pastoral Infidelity           

Appendix D:
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous   

Written by long standing friends of the AACC, these seminary trained clinicians bring their best insights to Unlocking Your Family Patterns. These guys know what they are talking about and this book will guide you on life’s journey so that you don’t repeat what you didn’t like about your some of your own family experiences. Starting with famous families of the Bible, you will begin to understand why each of us, in our own families, need daily help to do things differently. Unlocking Your Family Patterns will walk you thru that journey.

Dr. Tim Clinton, president, American Association of Christian Counselors

Product Details

  • Title : Unlocking Your Family Patterns: Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past
  • Authors:
    • Carder, David
    • Henslin, Earl R.
    • Townsend III, John S.
    • Cloud, William Henry
    • Brawand, Alice
    • Swindoll, Charles R.
  • Publisher: Moody Publishers
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • ISBN: 9781575675244
DAVE CARDER serves as Pastor of Counseling Ministries at First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, CA. His specialty is Adultery Recovery and Prevention for which he has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Network, Discovery Health, and The Learning Channel, has done training for the US Army and Navy, plus multiple tapings for The Tony Robbins Passion Project, Marriage Uncensored, 100 Huntley Street, Salvation Army Leadership Training, and the American Association of Christian Counselors. His interviews and articles have appeared in Ladies Home Journal, USA Today, The Counseling Connection, and various other magazines and journals. He is the author or co-author of Torn Asunder: Recovering from an Extramarital Affair, Close Calls: What Adulterers Want You to Know About Protecting Your Marriage, and Unlocking Your Family Patterns: Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past. He holds the Michigan Limited License for Psychology and the California Marital and Family Therapy license, and has graduate degrees in Biblical Literature and Counseling Psychology. Dave and his wife, Ronnie, have been married 49 years, have four adult children, and eight grandchildren.

EARL R. HENSLIN (Psy.D., Biola University), is a licensed marriage and family therapist, former part-time faculty member at the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology at Biola University, La Mirada, California, author of seven books, and co-author of three books and numerous professional articles. He is a member of several professional organizations and helped in the founding of Overcomers Outreach to aid churches in establishing support groups.For the past 14 years Dr. Henslin has been integrating brain imaging into the treatment of psychological, physical, and spiritual problems at his counseling practice, Henslin and Associates, a Christian counseling group in Brea, California. Dr. Henslin has four adult children and two lovely granddaughters.

DR. JOHN TOWNSEND is a psychologist, relational expert, business consultant, and leadership coach. He has written or co-written over 20 books, selling 5 million copies, including the 2 million best-seller Boundaries; Leadership Beyond Reason; and Handling Difficult People.For more than twenty years Dr. Townsend has engaged with audiences, organizations and leaders around the world, providing practical solutions to their problems. He is a co-host of the nationally-syndicated talk show New Life Live John is a visiting professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, and is Clinical Director of the American Association of Christian Counselors. He is active on the Board of Directors of Mustard Seed Ranch www.mustardseedranchtn.org, a residential program for abused children. He, his wife, and their children reside in Newport Beach, CA. John’s passion is playing in a band which performs at southern California lounges and venues.

DR. HENRY CLOUD (B.S., Southern Methodist University; Ph.D., Biola University) is a clinical psychologist, leadership consultant, best-selling author and communicator. He has written or co-authored more than 20 books, including the two million seller Boundaries, Integrity, 9 Things You Simply Must Do To Succeed in Love and Life, and, most recently, Necessary Endings. Dr. Cloud is the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio program New Life Live.

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