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  1. good evening, everyone, and thank you for viewing this presentation.
  2. But I am presenting today is entitled religious and spiritual competencies,
  3. and this is a proposal for addressing religious and spiritual abuse in our facility
  4. in order to discuss what this project proposal entails.
  5. I think it's first important to define what religious and spiritual abuse is.
  6. Um, the definition can be
  7. a little bit broad.
  8. It includes
  9. abuse of all types emotional, psychological, physical, sexual.
  10. But it's all marked by the misuse of religious materials
  11. in an attempt to
  12. harm or control a vulnerable person.
  13. There are certain key terms that are associated with this type of abuse,
  14. but you may recognize ones like betrayal, trauma, um, powerlessness, depression,
  15. loss of self, low self esteem.
  16. All of these things can be negative consequences of this type of abuse.
  17. Um, I wanted to share a
  18. table by David Slade at the Global Center for Religious Research.
  19. Um,
  20. and this just shows the different ways that
  21. religious abuse or religious trauma can present itself.
  22. You'll see things like growing up with chronic fear or
  23. anxiety that usually involves religious ideas like hell or salvation,
  24. difficulty with experiencing pleasure,
  25. a feeling that you can't trust yourself or your emotions.
  26. There's just an ongoing theme of inadequacy and guilt and shame. Um,
  27. that can come about from this type of abuse.
  28. So to understand,
  29. religious and spiritual abuse, um,
  30. allows us to understand religious and spiritual competencies.
  31. So what? This refers to, um, our attitudes, skills and knowledge
  32. that we expect our psychology professionals to be proficient in
  33. Via 10 and Luke off in 2021 actually published this table.
  34. Proposed spiritual and religious competencies for psychologists.
  35. Um, as of today,
  36. this is considered the most recent and best research that has been done in this area.
  37. I feel free to pause to read the table.
  38. Um, but just to give you a quick snapshot of the things that you can find here, um,
  39. psychologists demonstrating empathy and appreciation for clients um,
  40. recognizing diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds
  41. and psychologists can identify and address
  42. spiritual or religious problems in clinical practice.
  43. So this refers to,
  44. um,
  45. all of the attitudes and skills and knowledge that we should expect
  46. someone to have when treating a survivor of this type of abuse.
  47. So we expect our psychology professional to be proficient
  48. in this area. But why exactly is it so important?
  49. Only 25% of psychology graduate programs
  50. offer religious or spiritual competency education.
  51. Now the problem with that
  52. is many studies have shown that clients want their psychologists
  53. to understand and engage with them about their beliefs.
  54. It doesn't matter whether they've had positive or negative experiences.
  55. They still want those beliefs to be a part of their therapy
  56. and not to mention religion effects.
  57. Literally millions of lives, um, some in positive waves,
  58. but some also in very negative ways.
  59. Yeah,
  60. other areas to consider,
  61. um, with the lack of education.
  62. This
  63. lack of specialized care makes these psychology professionals
  64. who do receive this education very exclusive,
  65. which means they are also very inexpensive and
  66. often inaccessible to the people who need them.
  67. And a lack of education puts clients at risk for unethical
  68. care as well as ineffective care.
  69. Our facility in particular, um,
  70. these competencies will ensure that our client's needs and wants are met.
  71. They're going to provide confidence to us as the professionals and can make a
  72. powerful impact on the lives of those affected by religious and spiritual abuse.
  73. Getting into the project proposal um, answers the how of this question.
  74. So the best solution to this problem is going
  75. to be competency training programs and ongoing supervision.
  76. Step one of this proposal.
  77. His facility directors should outline a list of religious and
  78. spiritual competencies that should be regarded as minimum and standard.
  79. Step two is facility directors should implement the
  80. items into an in person training course.
  81. Yeah,
  82. Step three is practitioners undergoing an
  83. individual assessment by facility directors.
  84. This could be in a series of case studies, vignettes or various communications
  85. and step for practitioners will be subject to ongoing clinical supervision,
  86. especially in the event of providing care to
  87. clients where religious or spiritual abuse is involved.
  88. Mm.
  89. Whatever the final outline of these training programs, um,
  90. and clinical supervision entails,
  91. it should include these four things interaction,
  92. open discussion, honest dialogue and regular feedback.
  93. So the milestones of this project
  94. Are very optimistic.
  95. By April of 2022,
  96. an appropriate list of competency should be created
  97. according to the best available evidence and research.
  98. We'll be referencing via 10 and Luke Aww um, in this area a bit more.
  99. By September of 2022,
  100. program directors should have created the appropriate curriculum
  101. and have prepared the material for in person training
  102. By December of 2022.
  103. Our current practitioners of this facility
  104. have undergone training course and have been individually assessed.
  105. The results that this will bring us,
  106. um, the first is it's going to add a valuable service to our facility,
  107. and it's going to allow us to
  108. reach many more people than we are able to reach. Right now,
  109. um, we can experience additional financial growth
  110. while remaining accessible to the community,
  111. and we can also what I think is most important
  112. is becoming a front runner in this area of care.
  113. I am
  114. passionate and determined to see us become
  115. equipped to demonstrate these competencies and provide,
  116. um,
  117. ongoing, effective and ethical care for our clients.
  118. I appreciate you viewing this presentation.
  119. References are located on this slide for more information,
  120. and I look forward to getting this project finished
  121. and the results underway.
  122. Thank you.