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Gay children, straight parents : a plan for family healing
- Author
- Cohen, Richard, 1952 October 15-.
- Title
- Gay children, straight parents : a plan for family healing / Richard Cohen.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2007.
- Description
- 233 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011187.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-224).
- Contents
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- Personal healing
- Step one: take care of yourself
- Step two: do your own work
- Step three: experience God's love
- Relational healing
- Step four: investigate the causes of SSA
- Step five: utilize effective communication skills
- Step six: make things right between you and your SSA child
- Step seven: discover your child's love language
- Step eight: same-sex parent, display appropriate physical affection
- Step nine: opposite-sex parent, take two steps back
- Community healing
- Step ten: create a welcoming environment in your home, place of worship, and community
- Step eleven: boyfriends, girlfriends, ceremonies and sleepovers
- Step twelve: find mentors and mentor others.
- Kinsey subjects
- Parents of homosexuals. Religious attitudes on homosexuality. Psychotherapy.
- ISBN
- 9780830834372 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830834370 (pbk. : alk. paper)