Module 9 - 12 Weeks
   Counseling Survivors of Abuse  
            (Abuse, Neglect/Abandonment, Domestic Abuse/Oppression, Sexual Assault) 

 This 12-week Module will develop the students' understanding of abuse and neglect, their effects, and how to utilize various materials, including the Mending the Soul curriculum, to help bring healing and wholeness to survivors.  

                                       Course may be taken independent of the Biblical Counselor certification track, but you MUST register.

Those who successfully complete this mosule will be equipped to support the pastoral counseling ministry in most churches and be equipped to facilitate support groups for survivors of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

Course Outline
        Session One:  Introduction | Helping Survivors  | The Extent and Impact of Abuse | Steps to Healing
        Session Two: Being a Community of Healing | The Predictability of Abuse
        Session Three: Calling Things What They Are, Part 1
        Session Four: Calling Things What They Are, Part 2
        Session Five: Profiles of Abusers
        Session Six: Portrait of an Abusive Family
        Session Seven: Shame: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
        Session Eight: Powerlessness and Deadness
        Session Nine: Isolation as Survival 
        Session Ten: Facing the Brokenness 
        Session Eleven: Rebuilding Intimacy with God 
        Session Twelve: Biblical Forgiveness; Self-Care and After-Care

(View syllabus here)
(If not a currently enrolled in the CBC Program, you will need to register for this Module by clicking on the box below.)

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