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Caring Enough to Confront: How to Understand and Express Your Deepest Feelings Toward Others

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David Augsburger, professor of pastoral care in a Christian seminary, helps Christian people to explore the nature of anger and a range of ways to work with this powerful emotion. He has created a very helpful chart that offers five different ways of moving toward resolution (when the time comes) each offering a range of caring and confronting. They include choosing my way, your way, no way, compromise, or creative effforts to discover our way. Augsburger explores how the Bible encourages both assertiveness and caring and helps the reader to find their own path, blending the two.

Execllent book! Growing up, I was under the impression that confrontation was a negative thing - that if I confronted a person about an issue then that meant I was a bad person for having poor or hurt feelings. After I read "Caring Enough to Confront" I understood that confrontation could acutally be a positive response to negative behavior. I highly reccommend this book for anyone suffering from the confrontation jitters.

quoted from the 1st chapter to give you an idea what this book is about ~I Love You. If I love you I must tell you the truth. I want your love. I want your truth. Love me enough to tell me the truth.

This book really helps those of us at times that have had to confront and have felt guilty for doing so.

Caring and confronting together provide the balance of Love and Power which lead to effective human relationships.

Like anything else there is a time for caring and a time for confronting. Each in it's own time. Care when caring is called for and confront when confrontation is required.

Excellent Book for help in knowing how and when to care-front :)

Confronting can be difficult and awkward. Augsburger uses practical tips to understand how confronting can be the most caring approach. Also offers details on how to communicate more effectively -- and expect others to do so with us.

This is a great book on confrontation. It has great ideas on dealing with poople who differ with you.
However the "Conflict Behavior Survey" in the Appendix I is very confusing. The explanation for interpreting your scores is not clear. I find little help in understanding the purpose. I would appreciate an clearer explanation of how to interpret. I wonder if anyone else had this problem.
Thanks

This book is so helpful in growing in one's communication skills as the author helps you to understand confronting as a loving response to one's relationships and self...I believe the term he uses is Carefront. Very thoughtful and well written.

An excellent book on the importance of caring confrontation (what the author calls "care-fronting"). It is written in a very easy-to-read style and offers very practical advice for anyone interested in learning how to grow and strengthen relationships.

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Great book! Growing up we were lead to believe that if you confront an issue or person you were a "trouble maker." Caring Enough to Confront helped me to realize that is not so when done properly. "When it is appropriate for me to speak, I want to do so clearly, honestly, personally, directly and in simple statements." Confronting and caring stimulate growth. A relationship will be as good as its communication. Joanne Kanute, Certified Life Coach