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Understanding Trauma (ebook)

Understanding Trauma ebook

A Biblical Introduction for Church Care

Guidance for churches on how to walk with wisdom and compassion alongside those who are struggling with trauma.

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Available from 1 Mar 2025
Description

Many of us long to serve and be there for those who are suffering from trauma, but we don't know how to do so in a way that is caring and helpful.

This book enables Christians, and especially pastors, elders and ministry leaders, to understand what trauma is, and how it affects people, including their experience of church, so that we can lovingly support those who are suffering from it.  

Author Steve Midgley trained as a psychiatrist before being ordained, served as Vicar of Christ Church Cambridge for 18 years and is now the Executive Director of Biblical Counselling UK. He writes with wisdom and compassion to summarise current understanding in this area, gives a biblical perspective, and makes lots of practical suggestions about how churches can be sensitive to, and be there for, those who have experienced trauma. 

This book will help whole church communities to help and care for those who are struggling with trauma.

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Contents

  • Part One: The Experience of Trauma
    1. The Bible's Stories of Trauma
    2. Personal Accounts of Trauma
    3. Trauma and Church
    4. Jesus' Comfort

    Part Two: Approaches to Trauma
    5. The Contemporary Thinking
    6. Trauma and Memory
    7. Trauma and the Body
    8. Biblical Categories for Engaging with Trauma

    Part Three: Church Responses to Trauma
    9. A Thoughtful Welcome
    10. Kind Conversations
    11. The Comfort of God
    12. A Place for Lament

    Part Four: Broader Reflections
    13. New Insights for Churches
    14. Some Words of Caution

    Epilogue: Doing Church Well

Specification

Contributors Steve Midgley
ISBN 9781802542721
Format eBook
First published March 2025
Language English
Publisher The Good Book Company
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