Unlocking Your Family Patterns

Unlocking Your Family Patterns
Finding Freedom from a Hurtful Past

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

PRODUCT DETAILS
Author:Dr. Henry Cloud, Dave Carder, Dr. John Townsend, Dr. Earl Henslin (Forward by Chuck Swindoll)
Paperback: 230 pages
Dimensions/Weight: 15.3 x 23 x 1.5 cm / 400g
Publisher/Date: Moody Publishers / 2011
Language: English