Conversion Therapy Of Minors

Julie Livingston and Angela Garcia both provide ethnographies centered around the theme of illumination. In the case of Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine works to illuminate the growing cancer epidemic in Africa as well as the unique way cancer is handled in situations of improvisation. Angela Garcia also works to illuminate via her ethnographic work, The Pastoral Clinic, by emphasizing the importance of dispossession in treating heroin addiction in the Española Valley and also working to counter common beliefs regarding heroin addiction. In defending these respective arguments, both authors use similar tone and voice; however, the structure of each ethnography is markedly different. Even with some weaknesses being relatively apparent

Last year, members of the Westboro Baptist Church picked a baptism of a child of a same-sex couple. Their reasoning, the child of the couple shall be sent to hell because again, “God hates Fags.”

AB 12 attempts to address the need to have services for youth who have been emancipated or discharged from the foster system. This is required as the data on the subject highlights that youth are simply often not able to be thriving adults on their eighteenth birthdays. Many find themselves on the street homeless, without jobs, in jail or parents before they are fully able to care for themselves.

In over a period of years, an increasing amount of attention has been shed to the problem of child sexual abuse in the church. While churches, and other facilities which care for children, have had their experience of this problem, most attention has been brought to the abuse in the Catholic Church. Around the world, case after case has been seen in the press of clergy and members of religious orders being charged with sex offenses against children. Some of these cases go back decades. The issue has certainly brought attention around the world. The reason why, is the question that ponders in everyone mind.

Walker) said the state's religious exemption law applied to a neglect statute and not to the manslaughter statute.(Masskids-7) As of 2011, Oregon made it a total of six states , along with Nebraska, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland and North Carolina to do away with religious exemptions in civil or criminal code cases pertaining to the medical care of sick or injured children. (Swan finally PDF-8)

Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy employed to assist members of a family in improving communication systems, conflict resolution, and to help the family to deal with certain problems that manifest in the behavior of members. In most cases, deviance in a family member is an indication of underlying family dysfunctions. This paper looks the counselling procedure that can be applied to help the Kline family solve their problems. It answers certain questions including those of the expected challenges during therapy and ways of dealing with the challenges.

Ritualistic child abuse is an extreme form of abuse that includes physical, mental, verbal, and spiritual abuse which often includes forced sex, repeated practices, child prostitution and child pornography (Bottoms, Shaver, & Goodman, 1996). There are different forms of ritual abuse, some containing aspects of mind control “programming”, hypnosis, and/or forced use of a victim as a vessel for a malevolent demon or spirit. Ritual abuse (RA) consists of conditioning and torture carried out in a ceremonial or calculated manner for the purpose of effecting control over a victim’s mind and behavior (Lacter, 2011). Although survivors have reported various forms of abuse, Lacter (2011) offers a partial list of forms of ritualistic torture, including sexual abuse and torture; electric shock; forced ingestion of offensive body fluids and matter, such as blood, urine, feces, flesh, semen, etc.; sensory deprivation; drugs to create illusion, confusion, and amnesia; forced to witness abuse, torture, and sacrifice of people and animals, usually with knives; forced participation in child pornography and prostitution; spiritual abuse to cause victim to feel possessed, harassed, and controlled internally by spirits or demons; harm or threats of harm to family, friends, loved ones, pets, and other victims, to force compliance; and many others.

Christianity and Judaism also have large groups that support the therapy. The religious purpose of Christian conversion groups are literally just to keep gays from having the same rights as anyone else. Mike Davidson, is a well known gay conversion therapist, and in April 2015, he has an interview with BBC News’ Victoria Derbyshire, and conversion therapy victim, Patrick Strudwick. When asked about how many people he had converted in a year, he deflected the question a lot, but eventually admitted to only have ‘converted’ three people. It is very difficult and rare to find people who have truly been converted to gay or not. Conversion therapy forces the incorrect principle that LGBT youth are wrong for being who they are, which Christian and Judaism organizations do not realize. In 2015, one of the largest jewish gay conversion therapy groups, JONAH, was shut down under a New Jersey law signed by Chris Christie. JONAH was also made to pay $3.5 million in legal fees in an attempt to ‘apologize’ for the damage they caused. JONAH also had a letter in 2012 signed by 200 jewish rabbis that stated they were in support of the conversion therapy movement. In response, the director of a large jewish LGBT group said that he and many others were fearful if the debate about conversion therapy could be discussed logically again under the new U.S. government. There are, of course, the people in

Since being placed in charge of the Residential Intervention Program, I have noted some issues with the information provided within the staff reports. The program was designed as an alternative to incarceration of low risk offenders, however, we must gauge if the program is effective and what is the current status of the program. Despite the recent report provided by staff which states there was a small reduction in recidivism, utilizing multiple interventions, I see room for improvement and need clarification of the results provided by staff.

I recently just read a book for a crisis counseling class, as part of the clinical mental health program for Messiah. Chapter 1, in the book Healing From Trauma, was entitled “Shit Happens.” The chapter spoke about traumatic events and why terrible things might happen to people. The chapter stressed that we are flawed humans that live in an imperfect world with little control over unexpected events in our lives. Unexpected deaths, war, terrorists attacks, and fatal illnesses, all strike without warning.

Since February 2013, a series of bills and resolutions opposing BDS activism have been passed by state legislatures in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and by Congress. Bills and resolutions opposing BDS activism have also been proposed in California, Maryland, and Ohio. It is possible that similar legislation will be proposed in other states.

State are not uniform in the emancipated minors and minors consenting for treatment. “Twenty states enforce a consent law, 10 states enforce a notification law, and 4 states enforce both”.

Chapter two starts off with the author talk about his education of true christian counseling before settling on one called the discipleship approach (Collins, 23). Readers explore some people-helper principals; starting with “the helper.” This principal starts out citing Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia in which Paul instructed the leaders there to “restore” the individuals who were apparently struggling with sin and other issues (23). Paul instructs that only those who are spiritual may help the struggling individuals so that the struggling individuals may get the real help they need by means of healthy, loving caring relationships. In principal two, we learn how to help people that can be difficult to penetrate

Gestalt therapy, which was founded by Fritz and Laura Perls in the 1940s, teaches the therapists and their clients the phenomenological awareness method, where feeling, perceiving and acting are differentiated from interpreting and rearranging the pre-existing attitudes. Gestalt therapists and clients’ dialogue, thus communicating their phenomenological perspectives, and their differences in perceptions form the basis and focus of experimentation and continued dialogue. The desired outcome of the therapy process is for the client to become aware of their actions, how they are acting, and the ways they can change their actions and learn to accept and appreciate themselves. Here, the emphasis is mainly on the process rather

Relevant experience in the pastoral support and/or care of young adults in the context of a tertiary education residential environment;