Basic knowledge needed to be cult-informed

COUNSELORS BASIC KNOWLEDGE AREAS                                   

1/21/19

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Counselors need to demonstrate basic knowledge in these areas to be cult-informed:

• Thought Reform dynamics
• Psychological techniques of persuasion and compliance
• Identity formation and manipulation
• Dissociation-altered states (Other specified Dissociative Disorder)
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Neurobiology of trauma
• Complex trauma
• Attachment-Relationships
• Affect regulation
• Psychopathology
• Psychosocial Development-impact of interruptions
• Recovery from trauma
• Guilt-shame
• Grief-irretrievable losses
• Resiliency-posttraumatic growth
• Working with clients with a refugee-like status: many of those born/raised in cults lack  basic documents (birth certificate, school records…) and may require help to access needed services