Good Enough Parenting: A Christian Perspective on Meeting Core Emotional Needs and Avoiding Exasperation. This item is unavailable.Good Enough Parenting: A Christian Perspective on Meeting Core Emotional Needs and Avoiding Exasperation

Good Enough Parenting combines insights from the Scriptures, credible research, and the Louis experiences as counsellors and parents with the wisdom of eight elders and their families to provide an inspirational, thorough, practical and well reasoned guide for parents. This book introduces the four plus one core emotional needs and explains why meeting them is absolutely crucial for raising emotionally healthy and spiritually minded children. Readers will also learn how to avoid Exasperation Interactions; and the Vortex of Conflict Escalation, as well as how to Repair and Reconnect with teenagers and adult children.

Married for over 25 years with two adult children, John and Karen Louis have been in full time church ministry service since 1985, and have been based in Asia since 1988. They both hold a Masters in Counselling from Monash University of Melbourne, Australia, and are members of professional associations in the US and Singapore. As founders of Movie Therapy, John and Karen incorporate the use of multi-media in workshops for churches as well as secular organisations, and have trained marriage and parenting educators from around the world. John is a certified Schema Therapist and member of the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST), having been trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder of Schema Therapy, while Karen is a certified Solution Focused Therapist.