Diagnosing the Demonic

One of the most difficult tasks for a therapist is to determine whether a client’s difficulty is psychologically based or spiritually based. Scripture shows us that virtually any physical, psychological, or social symptoms might be attributed to demonic spirits. The enemy attacks on all possible fronts, which complicates the whole process of diagnosis. The most accurate diagnoses come not from looking only at symptoms, but at predictive life experiences. If the individual has opened certain doors there is an increased probability that demonic involvement is present. These include (1) generational curses, oaths, and soul ties, (2) occult involvement, (3) trauma or victimization, and (4) long-term ongoing sin. These create areas of spiritual vulnerability into which demonic spirits may move

Deliverance as Part of the Therapeutic Process: Working with Children and Adolescents

Doing deliverance with children and adolescents in a counseling setting requires that the practitioner take into consideration both spiritual and developmental issues. This outline from a presentation done at the American Association of Christian Counseling World Conference 2009 in Nashville, TN looks at deliverance in general and how the unique aspects or working with children and adolescents. This paper is to be considered an elaboration of some points found in Deliverance as Part of the Therapeutic Process – 2007 AACC World Conference Presentatio

Deliverance as Part of the Therapeutic Process

Within the last few years there has been an increased interest in spiritual warfare and, along with it, the deliverance ministry. The increased visibility of this ministry has resulted in a plethora of books and tapes on the subject. The following is an outline of a presentation made at the 2007 American Association of Christian Counselor’s World Conference in Nashville, TN. It is entitled Deliverance as a Part of the Therapeutic Process

Subexponential solutions of scalar linear integro-differential equations with delay

This paper considers the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the scalar linear convolution integro-differential equation with delay x0(t) = − n Xi=1 aix(t − i) + Z t 0 k(t − s)x(s) ds, t > 0, x(t) = (t), − t 0, where = max1in i. In this problem, k is a non-negative function in L1(0,1)\C[0,1), i 0, ai > 0 and is a continuous function on [−, 0]. The kernel k is subexponential in the sense that limt!1 k(t)(t)−1 > 0 where is a positive subexponential function. A consequence of this is that k(t)et ! 1 as t ! 1 for every > 0

Factors Influencing a Divorced Father’s Involvement with His Children

One of the outcomes of divorce that has appeared consistently over the years has been a lessening of contact between divorced noncustodial fathers and their children. This review synthesizes empirical evidence to portray the formidable obstacles that men face in maintaining contact with their children after dissolution of their co-residential relationship with the child’s mother. Its goal is to bring new understanding to observed behavior patterns of divorced fathers. We will briefly examine what the research tells us takes place in many fathers who have been divorced from their wives and have lost physical custody of their children

On exact rates of growth and decay of solutions of a linear Volterra equation in linear viscoelasticity

EnThe asymptotic behaviour of a scalar linear nonconvolution Volterra equation is investigated; the equation is that satisfied by the modes of a viscoelastic rod bending quasi-statically. A sufficient condition for the trivial solution to be asymptotic stable is given, as well as results on describing the exact rate of decay: in the case that the trivial solution is unstable, the exact rate of growth of solutions is specified

Parenting and Adult Development

It is likely that the more engaged a parent is, the more his or her adult development will be affected. Because there is a direct relationship between the degree of investment a person places in any developmental context and the outcome that the context exerts, it has been hypothesized that the developmental impact of parenting is directly related to its cumulative salience in relation to other contexts of development (Palkovitz, 1996). This chapter represents an attempt to summarize pertinent empirical findings, to further refine conceptual constructs, to elaborate upon their interactions and to facilitate understanding of the effects of parenting on adult development