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Understanding Trauma (audiobook)
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Understanding Trauma (audiobook)

A Biblical Introduction for Church Care

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About this book

Many of us long to serve and be there for those who are suffering from trauma, but we don't know how to do so in a way that is caring and helpful.

This book enables Christians, and especially pastors, elders and ministry leaders, to understand what trauma is, and how it affects people, including their experience of church, so that we can lovingly support those who are suffering from it.  

Author Steve Midgley trained as a psychiatrist before being ordained, served as Vicar of Christ Church Cambridge for 18 years and is now the Executive Director of Biblical Counselling UK. He writes with wisdom and compassion to summarise current understanding ...

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Specifications

Contributors:
Steve Midgley
ISBN:
9798891533394
Format:
Audiobook
First published:
March 2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Good Book Company

Contents

Part One: The Experience of Trauma
1. The Bible's Stories of Trauma
2. Personal Accounts of Trauma
3. Trauma and Church
4. Jesus' Comfort

Part Two: Approaches to Trauma
5. The Contemporary Thinking
6. Trauma and Memory
7. Trauma and the Body
8. Biblical Categories for Engaging with Trauma

Part Three: Church Responses to Trauma
9. A Thoughtful Welcome
10. Kind Conversations
11. The Comfort of God
12. A Place for Lament

Part Four: Broader Reflections
13. New Insights for Churches
14. Some Words of Caution

Epilogue: Doing Church Well

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