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		<title>Unconditional Worth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unconditional worth means that each person has infinite, unchanging worth as a person. This worth comes with a person&#8217;s creation, and cannot be earned nor lost by poor behavior. This is not the same as market or social worth, which clearly are earned and lost. This core worth is not comparable. So you might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=799&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://conversationsonthefringe.com/2010/09/07/unconditional-worth/</link>
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		<title>Myths About Child Abuse And Neglect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Child abuse is more than bruises or broken bones. While physical abuse is shocking due to the scars it leaves, not all child abuse is as obvious. Ignoring children’s needs, putting them in unsupervised, dangerous situations, or making a child feel worthless or stupid are also child abuse. Regardless of the type of child abuse, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=790&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://conversationsonthefringe.com/2010/09/04/myths-about-child-abuse-and-neglect/</link>
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		<title>Stress Management (youth pastor life skills series pt. 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Happens To Our Bodies Under Stress? You are driving down the interstate highway on a rainy evening.  Visibility is very poor and you are being more cautions than usual.  You are a few minutes late for youth group and are a bit preoccupied with getting there on time.  Suddenly the car in front of you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=785&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://conversationsonthefringe.com/2010/08/30/stress-management-youth-pastor-life-skills-series-pt-2/</link>
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		<title>Basic Brain Function and Emotional Hijacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding a few basics of what is happening in the brain of an adolescent prior to an impulsive and destructive behavior (i.e., self-injury, fighting, etc.) will help you walk through the lies, negative thoughts, and emotions that often drive these behaviors. The goal is to teach them when they are being hooked by lies from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=779&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Examining False Core Beliefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research has found that a number of core beliefs identified by the psychologist Albert Ellis are consistently linked to self-dislike and depression.  I see these in many young  people today and they go largely unchallenged by adults because many of the adults in their lives are handicapped by the same irrational beliefs.  Below is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=772&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://conversationsonthefringe.com/2010/08/18/examining-false-core-beliefs/</link>
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		<title>How Thin Is Thin Enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends over at Fuller Youth Institute published a great post today about the messages we are sending our young girls. They referred to an article in the Huffington Post about photos of models that have been touched up to make the model look thinner. As a father of three young girls I&#8217;m concerned that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=759&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion Fatigue in Youth Ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compassion Fatigue affects a broad range of health care professionals as well as others who provide a myriad of listening and support services.  This condition occurs when professionals, family, friends, or caregivers are continually exposed to extreme emotional circumstances wither directly or indirectly, in an attempt to treat or support those they serve. Because the effects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=748&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transference in Youth Ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To many parents in the pew, the youth pastor represents the &#8220;authority and will of God. Wherever you have an authority role, a very specific kind of transference happens. The &#8220;role&#8221; of pastor, not the &#8220;person,&#8221; but the &#8220;role&#8221; encourages a complex set of transference reactions. Students and parents tend to  idealize you and then &#8220;transfer&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=744&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common Conflict Resolution Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom (and research) says that good communication can improve relationships, increasing intimacy, trust and support. The converse is also true: poor communication can weaken bonds, creating mistrust and even contempt! The Scriptures also tell us that it is wise to be slow to speak and quick to listen.  Here are some examples of negative and even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=737&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Strategies for Working with Boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research from Nancy Bayley&#8217;s at UCLA showed that for boys more than girls there is indeed a direct link to learning difficulties when early childhood touch and attachment doesn&#8217;t occur or occurs inconsistently.  In her study, boys who experienced insecure attachment as infants tested out lower in adolescent intellectual skills than girls who did not receive secure attachment.  Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conversationsonthefringe.com&amp;blog=12803805&amp;post=729&amp;subd=conversationsonthefringe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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