Professional Counselor - MFT - NBCC
Cults
Credits
7 NBCC CE credit hours training
Cost
$0.99
Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
TRAINING
Course Description
Basically there are two types of people who join cults, people who are searching for a higher power to guide them and people who are mesmerized by the energy, charisma of the leaders and organization of a cult.
Counseling current or past cult members attempts to address the whole range of problems that 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.
The therapy 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.
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
TRAINING
Course Description
Basically there are two types of people who join cults, people who are searching for a higher power to guide them and people who are mesmerized by the energy, charisma of the leaders and organization of a cult.
Counseling current or past cult members attempts to address the whole range of problems that 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.
The therapy 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.
Cult Counseling
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.
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.
Establishing Rapport
An essential skill for the
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