Patterns of Destruction

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Author-Stan DeKoven

It was 1984 when my former associate and I first began working as counselors with the Domestic Violence and Youth Diversion programs of the San Diego City Police Department. I never thought that much of my focus in therapy over the next few years would be with victims of family abuse, either past or present.

My leading in that direction should not have seemed such a surprise. We had long been desirous of developing our counseling ministry with specializations in what seemed to be the most needed fields of concern: dysfunctional families, adult children of alcoholics, adults molested as children, etc. These kinds of individual and family problems have been on a steady increase. My hope is that my knowledge and experience will be expressed in wisdom for those who suffer and for clinicians and pastors who desire to be “wounded healers.”

In this seminal work by therapist and educator Dr. Stan DeKoven, the full ramifications of family violence are exposed and dismantled. From a proper understanding of the dynamics leading to abuse, rooted in family dysfunction, to the treatment of victim and victimizer, Dr. DeKoven presents the truth and destroys the myths of family violence, from a strongly psychological and theological perspective.