Marriage and Family Counseling Case Study: Forgiveness
Marriage and Family Counseling Case Study: Forgiveness The family of Hosea is totally broken through the willful acts of Gomer the wife. She has been unfaithful
Marriage and Family Counseling Case Study: Forgiveness
Marriage and Family Counseling
Case Study: Forgiveness
The family of Hosea is totally broken through the willful acts of Gomer the wife. She has been unfaithful to her marriage vows and in her unfaithfulness has conceived a child and or children.
There is a possibility that she will be returning to her husband but the counselor is going to have to incorporate biblical patterns of forgiveness in the counseling sessions
Forgiveness is a very difficult hurdle for the counselor to guide his / her counselee through and therefore several biblical truths must be dealt with.
Utilize the lesson on forgiveness and apply it to several counseling sessions that
will involve Hosea’s family, which can include the children
1 There are two initial truths in dealing with Hurts which are: (List them and incorporate them into your first counseling session with the Hosea family)
Hurts usually make one see…
Hurts usually make one set…
In addition, in setting limits of forgiveness one needs to make sure that one is presenting a biblical model of forgiveness, which is not necessarily what may seem to be Generous or even Spiritual but that which is Biblical –
2. There are two foundational truths of forgiveness which are: (List them and incorporate them into your second counseling session with the Hosea family)
Forgiveness is…
Forgiveness has active…
More so, these active ingredients are: (Address these ingredients to the Hosea family within the second session)
First
Second
Third
Fourth
this is what I wrote in another paper that might be helpful; Forgiveness and How it is Achieve d
Lastly, the example Hosea shows is a different kind of picture from what forgiveness is from the norm.