Forming Resilient Children – The Role of Spiritual Formation for Healthy Development

Holly Catterton Allen, Catherine Stonehouse (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2021
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0172-1 (ISBN)

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We can't protect children from all hardships, but we can promote healthy development that fosters resilience. In this interdisciplinary work, Holly Catterton Allen equips educators, counselors, children's ministers, and parents with ways of developing children's spirituality so they can persevere when facing trauma and thrive in challenging times.

Many children today are growing up in the midst of adversity, whether brought on by family difficulties or larger societal crises. All children need to be able to deal with stress, cope with challenges, and persevere through disappointments. While we cannot protect children from all hardships, we can promote healthy development that fosters resilience.
In this interdisciplinary work, Holly Catterton Allen builds a bridge between resilience studies and children's spiritual formation. Because children are spiritual beings, those who work with them can cultivate spiritual practices that are essential to their thriving in challenging times.
This book equips educators, counselors, children's ministers, and parents with ways of developing children's spirituality to foster the resilience needed to face the ordinary hardships of childhood and to persevere when facing trauma. It offers particular insight into the spiritual experiences of children who have been hurt by life through chronic illness, disability, abuse, or disasters, with resources for healing and hope.

Holly Catterton Allen (PhD, Talbot School of Theology) is professor of family studies and Christian ministries at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has previously taught at John Brown University, Biola University, and Abilene Christian University. Allen's areas of scholarly interest are children's spirituality and intergenerational issues, and she leads two national, ecumenical conferences: InterGenerate and the Children's Spirituality Summit. She is the editor of Nurturing Children's Spirituality and InterGenerate and the coauthor of Intergenerational Christian Formation.

Foreword by Catherine Stonehouse

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Foundational Concepts in Children's Spirituality and Resilience

1 What Is Children's Spirituality?

2 Resilience in Children

3 The Intersection of Children's Spirituality and Resilience

Part Two: Families, Children's Spirituality, and Resilience

4 Parenting, Children's Spirituality, and Resilience

5 Grandparenting, Children's Spirituality, and Resilience

Part Three: Churches, Children's Spirituality, and Resilience

6 Intergenerational Christian Experiences

7 God's Story, Our Story

8 Body and Spirit

9 Wonder

Part Four: Children's Spirituality, Resilience, and Adversity

10 Severe Trauma

11 Grief and Loss

12 Good Books

Part Five: In Conclusion

13 Hope and Resilience

Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2021
Verlagsort	IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	274 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Religionspädagogik / Katechetik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5140-0172-1 / 1514001721
ISBN-13	978-1-5140-0172-1 / 9781514001721
Zustand	Neuware