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Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach
Dissertation (MTh (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/107408 Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach Botha, Annelie records.lydia@gmail.com Records, Lydia Elizabeth UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Blended familities Seventh Day Adventist Church Counselling approaches Single parent families Alternative family structure Dissertation (MTh (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2024. This study focuses on providing a pastoral counselling approach for Seventh Day Adventist counsellors for supporting non-nuclear families. Alternative family structures, such as stepfamilies, adoptive families, and single-parent households, have been increasing for the last few years and this is no different within the SDA church. Despite this, the SDA church has not provided counsellors with an appropriate approach to support these families. This study suggests that SDA counsellors can support alternative families with the application of Attachment-Based Therapy and Family Systems Therapy. However, before this can be applied, an understanding of both families and marriage in the Bible, as well as, of the alternative family structures, is necessary. This study addresses this by, firstly, discussing what the SDA church considers the ideal marriage and how this ideal was not always practiced throughout the Bible. Secondly, the study discusses a few of the alternative family structures that are common today. Practical Theology MTh (Practical Theology) Unrestricted Faculty of Theology and Religion SDG-03: Good health and well-being 2026-01-20T07:17:39Z 2026-01-20T07:17:39Z 2025 2024-10 Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107408 N/A en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Blended familities Seventh Day Adventist Church Counselling approaches Single parent families Alternative family structure Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach |
| title | Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach |
| title_full | Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach |
| title_fullStr | Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach |
| title_short | Alternative family structures within the contexts of the Seventh Day Adventist Church : a pastoral approach |
| title_sort | alternative family structures within the contexts of the seventh day adventist church a pastoral approach |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Blended familities Seventh Day Adventist Church Counselling approaches Single parent families Alternative family structure |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107408 |