Theoretical Model of Sandra Wilson

A Critique of a Theoretical Model:

Hurt People Hurt People by Dr. Sandra Wilson

Karen Abad

Liberty University

A Critique of a Theoretical Model:

Hurt People Hurt People by Dr. Sandra Wilson

Summary of Dr Sandra Wilson

Dr. Wilson writes and provides to us based on her personal experience. She has been down the road of being hopeless and has experienced the brokenness in her personal relationships. It was through her family that she gained the experience to develop her systemic view that people develop in a family context and child wounding happen in a family relationship context.

Wilson recognizes that in living through the development process, persons sometimes develop a distorted view of God and relate to Him as if He were the same as their parent. In this context, a person may transfer onto God unresolved emotions concerning a parent. Wilson provides Christian counselors a framework for considering and understanding this possible complication in the lives of their counselees.

Wilson offers a model of counseling based on personal experience in transformation process. In addition, her model is consistent with the generally accepted ad research supported findings in the Cognitive Behavioral and Family Systems theoretical frameworks.

Most of the hurt comes from when we are children. When we are young we are trusting and give love to all individuals who show us love and that is why it becomes so easy for us to become vulnerable to hurt. Dr. Wilson shared with us about her childhood experience of this unseen wound. She was victim to her father as he attempted to kill her and her mother and later on fell victim again to her stepfather. Later, on she went on to even marry and was abused. This goes to show that the wounds are still there and we tend to be in denial thinking or hoping that change is going to come soon. The individuals must want change for themselves.

Due to their limited cognitive abilities, children are physically and intellectually...