{"id":22630,"date":"2020-08-12T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22630"},"modified":"2020-08-12T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:07:12","slug":"introduction-to-counseling-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22630","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Counseling Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if lt IE 9]>document.createElement('audio');<![endif]--> <a href=\"https:\/\/acbcdigitalresources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/resources\/Audio+Transcript+Files\/Introduction+to+Counseling+Children.mp3\">https:\/\/acbcdigitalresources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/resources\/Audio+Transcript+Files\/Introduction+to+Counseling+Children.mp3<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acbcdigitalresources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/resources\/Audio+Transcript+Files\/Introduction+to+Counseling+Children.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For children the struggles, the desires, and the hope are no different than for those of us who are adults. It\u2019s not like children need something esoteric. We\u2019re not looking for what\u2019s different with children. The struggles, the desires, and the hope are no different than they are with adults. If you\u2019ve been counseling adults, you can counsel children. You really can! This is there\u2019s not some esoteric counseling-children-field. Of course you want to use language that they can understand, but many of you are parents and you\u2019re used to doing that. You\u2019ve been doing that for for years and years now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maya\u2019s Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me begin by telling you about a little 11 year-old-girl, who I\u2019m going to call Maya, that I had the sweet privilege of getting to work with a while back. This convinced me, if I hadn\u2019t been convinced before, that children struggle with the same desires adults struggle with. They are lured by the same lies that adults fall prey to. They find hope in the same source where adults find hope\u2014in our Lord and Savior.<\/p>\n<p>Children, like adults, wrestle with profound thoughts and questions. I was struck by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes For children the struggles, the desires, and the hope are no different than for those of us who are adults. It\u2019s not like children need something esoteric. We\u2019re not looking for what\u2019s different with children. 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