Book Report `Hope Focused Marriage Counseling by E. L. Worthington

Running head : HOPE-FOCUSED MARRIAGE COUNSELING

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Book Report on Worthington 's Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling

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Introduction

Unlike other explorations insinuated in the context of research marriage counseling has been one of the unspecialized fields emerged with theoretical assumptions and practice ADDIN EN .CITE Stuckert7Robert

br StuckertRole Perception and Marital Satisfaction . A Configurational ApproachMarriage and Family LivingMarriage and Family Living03 (Stuckert , 2003 . This however , has been the challenge to psychologists and practitioners in defying the thought

that marriage cannot be taken into research since its hypotheses and results of practice have been acclimated , nevertheless the volume available for study is accumulated . Everett L . Worthington Jr , a psychology professor and the proponent of over 150 articles tackling issues on marriage forgiveness and reconciliation was able to find standard procedures on how to keep marriages anchored on Christianity based marital therapy More specifically , through the light of his year 1999 published book Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling , couples are to be taken to a self rehabilitation which will give hope to individuals who are living in a room full of skeptic viewpoints about marriage and eventually open a realization that his substantial research shall lead them to a path where miracles do happen in the real world ' ADDIN EN .CITE WorthingtonEverett L WorthingtonHope-Focused Marriage Counseling : A Guide to Brief Therapy1999Do wners Grove , ILInterVarsity Press (Worthington 1999

Overview

Marriage is a shadow of the relationship that we are expected to have with Jesus - permanent , loving , committed (Eph 5 :32

Everett L . Worthington begins his book with a verse in the bible which depicts the meaning of marriage in the most moral and Christian way thus giving a connotation that helping troubled couples is not an easy task However , she points out the fact that the extent of healing relationships is through developing a character of Christ embodied in every individual 's personality and manifest such with one 's relationships to his or her social network as well ADDIN EN .CITE WorthingtonEverett L WorthingtonHope-Focused Marriage Counseling : A Guide to Brief Therapy1999Do wners Grove , ILInterVarsity Press (Worthington 1999 . Further , he stresses that when a relationship has Christ as vanguard , life will be inhabited with the verity of love , faith and hope and that then is the start of a bright thing

Strengths

What makes his book amazing falls on the grounds of analytic and realistic situations as the core of the gist of the whole scenario Initially introducing theories then later putting the theories into practice makes readers able to divulge their selves in the dimension that the author intends them to live with . His strategies (advices , so to speak ) draws out a hysteria which will make readers know their respective state in life at first , hence , for having been given the momentum to realize what is happening in their lives , they will seek for answers on how to save them from their presumed agony . Further , his approaches through exercises which are efficient to exhibit ADDIN EN .CITE WorthingtonEverett L WorthingtonHope-Focused...