PROVIDER INFORMATION : NASW CA BBS ASWB NBCC NAADAC CAADAC
Cults
Units: This is a 7 unit training
Cost: $28.00
Written by: Rachel Werner MFT #37494
Learning Objectives
After completing this training the healthcare professional will be able to:
Cult counseling attempts to address the whole range of problems manifest in the victims of thought reform. The specific goal of the therapy is to assist the cult victim in establishing points of reference outside the closed polarized image of reality offered by his or her totalistic system. Cult counseling consists of three basic elements: establishing rapport, describing points of reference outside the closed polarized image of reality of the cult, mourning/ reflecting and remembering the experience. I shall treat the three elements as though they are distinct. In fact they do overlap. In the first two stages the counselor or deprogrammer is involved as a full partner in what may be an extremely intense interaction. The third stage may or may not involve the counselors and is one that will stretch out over weeks, months and years and may include parents, siblings, friends and ex-cult members.
The following topics will be discussed in this training:
After completing this training the healthcare professional will be able to:
- Discuss the general approach to managing patients who are or were in a cult.
- Identify and explain the major arguments in the current debate concerning brain washing.
- Describe a cult intervention.
- Identify cult-related issues that may reveal themselves in therapeutic situations.
- Identify therapeutic challenges faced by the therapists working with cult-involved clients.
Cult counseling attempts to address the whole range of problems manifest in the victims of thought reform. The specific goal of the therapy is to assist the cult victim in establishing points of reference outside the closed polarized image of reality offered by his or her totalistic system. Cult counseling consists of three basic elements: establishing rapport, describing points of reference outside the closed polarized image of reality of the cult, mourning/ reflecting and remembering the experience. I shall treat the three elements as though they are distinct. In fact they do overlap. In the first two stages the counselor or deprogrammer is involved as a full partner in what may be an extremely intense interaction. The third stage may or may not involve the counselors and is one that will stretch out over weeks, months and years and may include parents, siblings, friends and ex-cult members.
The following topics will be discussed in this training:
- Establishing Rapport
- Initial Issues/Response
- Recovered Memory Therapy
- Does Programming Exist?
- Specific Techniques of Programming
- Glossary of SRA Terms:
- Cult Intervention
- Planning an Intervention
- Deprogramming
- A Brief History of Cult Intervention Work
- Professional Responsibility
- Responsibility of Therapists to Clients
- Brain Washing
- Chemical Dependency and cults
- Client Confidentiality Financial matters
- Communication
- Leaving a Cult
- Cult Recovery
- Support
- Cult Awareness
- Thought Control Emotional Control
- Satanism
- Essay: Grief, Loss, and the Former Cult Member
- The stories of Infamous Cults:
- Jonestown
- Charles Manson
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