Beyond Deserving: Children, Parents, and Responsibility Revisited

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 18.05.2007 - 170 Seiten
Drawing on thirty years of practicing psychotherapy, Dorothy Martyn here gives readers a unique look into a play-therapy room where three children individually present their own journeys over some months. These children, in that setting, provide us with a special lens through which we can better understand what transpires in their minds -- and in ours.

Through the children's creative, poetic utterances -- enhanced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and other literary giants -- Beyond Deserving persuasively argues against the justice idea of reward according to what is deserved and for the superior potency of a beyond-deserving model in cultivating love and creative work in children. Written primarily for parents and other mentors -- teachers, youth leaders, counselors, and so on -- Beyond Deserving draws the subject of child rearing back to its roots in the biblical declaration of unconditional love, love that moves first, without a prior "deserving."

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How Conflicts in Outer Space Speak to Those
8
On Taking Responsibility or Repairing the Landspeeder
22
Jennie
25
Henry
40
Seeing the Childrens Presentations through Dickinsons Lens
59
The Child
97
The Snake in the Garden
120
Psychotherapy as a New Kind of Garden
131
Responsibility Revisited
152
BIBLIOGRAPHY
162
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