Counseling adults abused as children on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions

for the problems that people face.

One of the most horrifying realities about childhood abuse, whether that abuse is the kind of physical

violence or sexual violence or even verbal violence, is that those children grow up to be adults and often they continue to struggle

with the aftermath of their abuse into adulthood and they don't know how to respond to it.

And that poses a problem of how do counselors respond to adults who are experiencing the pain of abuse

that has lingered from childhood. I want to respond to this on the podcast this week, but I also

want to be very clear about something. The purpose of truth and love is not to handle any one

topic in a comprehensive way.

We are happy to deal with big and controversial issues on the podcast, but it's never our

intention in a podcast that's about 10 minutes or so to deal with all the issues that come up

on those topics in a comprehensive way.

What we want to do is address them in a limited way and then point you to other resources

for further consideration.

That's really important for me to mention on this podcast because counseling adults who

were victims of childhood abuse is a complex and a very individualized enterprise. It would be

impossible in an eight or a 10 or a 15-minute podcast to deal with all of the very specific

and complicated issues that are going to come up in the aftermath of something

like that. What I want to do is ask you to consider a few things and then encourage you that as you

are helping people with this issue, you need to understand their situation very carefully,

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