Crabb And Worthing: A Comparative Analysis
The third difference between authors: The third way that Crabb and Worthing differ is in their strategies and guidelines for marital counseling. Crabb’s strategy for building marital unity in a couple is based on three building blocks: grace, commitment, and acceptance. In Crabb’s section on grace is where he addresses the importance of hope in marital counseling. Before the responsibilities of marriage can be regarded as inviting opportunity rather than pointless duty, the individuals must be hopeful in the healing of their marriage. As is the standard with Crabb, he attaches hope to biblical obedience. If the couple has a foundation of hope from which to earnestly strive for biblical living, then even the worst marriages can be healed.
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The target for change is based on an assessment of the couple, with an extensive collection of sensible, powerful, planned interventions flexibly used in sessions. He aims to apply faith working through love. This is founded on scripture depicting God’s pattern for helping people mature (Galations 5:5-6). Worthington defines love as a willingness to value and to avoid devaluing people that springs from a caring, other-focused heart. This strategy involves fostering hope and motivation, showing tangible ways to change, and strengthening the couple’s resolve to wait on God’s work in their marriage. His structure for counseling consists of no more than 10 sessions, each with assessment, in-session interventions, and homework assignments. These interventions are physical with verbal processing and should be focused and choreographed toward promoting the strategy of faith working through love, giving hope to the couple. Worthington focuses the interventions in nine typical areas of conflict: central beliefs and values, core vision, confession/forgiveness, communication, conflict resolution, cognition, closeness, complicating factors, and commitment. Focus in these areas can help target, address, and resolve the weaknesses and emotionally negative pitfalls that the couple needs to work through. Worthington and Crabb has a few areas in which they find common ground here – namely commitment and forgiveness. However, Worthington’s strategy and structure is much more defined, offering an outlined guide, tools, and resources for counselors to use and build
The target for change is based on an assessment of the couple, with an extensive collection of sensible, powerful, planned interventions flexibly used in sessions. He aims to apply faith working through love. This is founded on scripture depicting God’s pattern for helping people mature (Galations 5:5-6). Worthington defines love as a willingness to value and to avoid devaluing people that springs from a caring, other-focused heart. This strategy involves fostering hope and motivation, showing tangible ways to change, and strengthening the couple’s resolve to wait on God’s work in their marriage. His structure for counseling consists of no more than 10 sessions, each with assessment, in-session interventions, and homework assignments. These interventions are physical with verbal processing and should be focused and choreographed toward promoting the strategy of faith working through love, giving hope to the couple. Worthington focuses the interventions in nine typical areas of conflict: central beliefs and values, core vision, confession/forgiveness, communication, conflict resolution, cognition, closeness, complicating factors, and commitment. Focus in these areas can help target, address, and resolve the weaknesses and emotionally negative pitfalls that the couple needs to work through. Worthington and Crabb has a few areas in which they find common ground here – namely commitment and forgiveness. However, Worthington’s strategy and structure is much more defined, offering an outlined guide, tools, and resources for counselors to use and build