__Wise counsel on sexual and relational issues__  
  
One of the foremost counseling needs of our day is help with sexuality and relationship issues. Those who are faced with such challenging concerns can readily use expert help with the problems that people bring to them. The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counseling provides the answers.   
  
This guide gives pastors, counselors, and everyday believers the information they need to help congregants, clients, and friends with their most intimate issues, including  
-sexual expectations and satisfaction  
-infidelity, forgiveness, and trust  
-sexual addictions  
-gender identity issues  
-raising sexually healthy kids  
  
Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies typical symptoms and patterns, definitions and key thoughts, questions to ask, directions for the conversation, action steps, biblical insights, prayer starters, and recommended resources.  
  
"If you do relationship counseling of any kind, you'll want to have this book as a handy resource. It's filled with practical helps."--Dr. Les Parrott, founder of RealRelationships.com; author, Crazy Good Sex  
  
"Slow down! You may have picked up The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counseling, but you're going to want to slowly read your way through the practical, biblical counsel that's here. This is a much-needed tool for helping couples and individuals with sexual questions and issues, as well as understanding the impact you can bring to their relationship."--Dr. John Trent, president, StrongFamilies.com  
  
"Practical and easy to use. You can never get enough good advice about sex. Drs. Clinton and Laaser have done a great job."--Dr. Kevin Leman, author, Sheet Music and Have a New Husband by Friday  
  
__Tim Clinton__ (EdD, The College of William and Mary) is president of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), executive director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies, professor of counseling and pastoral care at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed professional counselor. He is the author or editor of many books.  
  
__Mark Laaser__ (1960-2019) was an internationally known speaker and the author of several books, including Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction. He and his wife, Debbie, were the founders of Faithful and True Ministries and the Laaser Center for the Family counseling center based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Tim Clinton (EdD, The College of William and Mary) is president of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), executive director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies, professor of counseling and pastoral care at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed professional counselor. He's the author or editor of more than fifteen books.  
  
__Mark Laaser__ (1960-2019) was an internationally known speaker and the author of several books, including Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction. He and his wife, Debbie, were the founders of Faithful and True Ministries and the Laaser Center for the Family counseling center based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

One of the foremost counseling needs in our day is help with sexuality and relationship issues. But sometimes those who are faced with helping the hurting could use a little more information about the problems that people bring to them. The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counseling provides the answers. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Each of the 40 topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources.  
  
__About the series__ The Quick-Reference Guides are A-Z guides that assist people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources.

This A-Z guide assists people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations.

Clinton, Dr. Tim ;Laaser, Dr. Mark

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS 

1. SEXUAL INTIMACY AND DELIGHT

2. SEXUAL DESIRE AND EXPECTATIONS

3. THREATS TO SEXUAL INTIMACY

4. INCREASING SEXUAL SATISFACTION

5. STRESS AND SEX

6. BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTION

7. INFERTILITY

PART 2: SEXUAL PROBLEMS AND RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGES 

8. LOW SEXUAL DESIRE

9. ORGASMIC DISORDERS

10. PREMATURE EJACULATION

11. SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER

12. SEXUAL PAIN DISORDER

13. MASTURBATION AND SELF-SEX

14. ORAL SEX

15. ANAL SEX

16. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

17. HIV TRANSMISSION AND AIDS

18. ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

19. INFIDELITY AND AFFAIRS

20. FORGIVENESS AND REBUILDING TRUST

PART 3: SEXUAL ADDICTION AND DEVIANCE 

21. SEX AND ROMANCE ADDICTION

22. PORNOGRAPHY

23. POLYAMORY AND GROUP SEX

24. EXHIBITIONISM AND VOYEURISM

25. FETISHISM

26. FROTTEURISM

27. SADISM AND MASOCHISM

28. SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE

29. PROSTITUTION AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

30. PEDOPHILIA

31. SEXUAL HARASSMENT

PART 4: GENDER IDENTITY ISSUES 

32. HOMOSEXUALITY

33. GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER

34. TRANSVESTIC FETISHISM

PART 5: SEXUAL ISSUES IN PARENTING AND FAMILY LIFE 

35. RAISING SEXUALLY HEALTHY CHILDREN

36. SEXUALLY ACTIVE KIDS AND TEENS

37. TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND PARENTING

38. INCEST

39. SINGLES AND SEXUALITY

40. ELDER SEX

NOTES

One of the foremost counseling needs in our day is help with sexuality and relationship issues. But sometimes those who are faced with helping the hurting could use a little more information about the problems that people bring to them.The Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counselingprovides the answers. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Each of the 40 topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources.  
  
About the series  
The Quick-Reference Guides are A-Z guides that assist people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources.

One of the foremost counselling needs in our day is help with sexuality and relationship issues. This A - Z guide is suitable for assisting people-helpers - pastors, professional counsellors, youth workers, and everyday believers - to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counselling situations.

One of the foremost counselling needs in our day is help with sexuality and relationship issues. But sometimes those who are faced with helping the hurting could use a little more information about the problems that people bring to them. The "Quick-Reference Guide to Sexuality and Relationship Counselling" provides the answers. It is an A - Z guide for assisting people-helpers - pastors, professional counsellors, youth workers, and everyday believers - to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counselling situations. Each of the 40 topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: typical symptoms and patterns, definitions and key thoughts, questions to ask, directions for the conversation, action steps, biblical insights, prayer starters, and recommended resources.

Tim Clinton (EdD, The College of William and Mary) is president of the American Association of Christian Counsellors (AACC), executive director of the Center for Counselling and Family Studies, professor of counselling and pastoral care at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed professional counsellor. He's the author or editor of more than fifteen books and lives in Forest, Virginia. Mark Laaser (PhD, University of Iowa) is an internationally known author and speaker who has written six books, including Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction. He and his wife, Debbie, are the founders of Faithful and True Ministries and the Laaser Center for the Family counselling center based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

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