Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Those therapists need to have their licenses revoked. If a therapist doesn’t have the objectivity to keep their own preferences out of therapy, are they even qualified to be doing it? I’d say no. For some, the community of church is a healthy thing, for others it just adds to the trauma. A competent therapist would figure out what each client really needed before pushing the church crap.
I’m with you on the first three sentences and the final one if you omit the last five words. If you live somewhere rural enough or without sufficient oversight for whatever reason, people start thinking they can bend those rules though. Being raised to believe that their book club has a monopoly on truth and morality contributes to the problem as well. Makes it a lot easier to ignore rules that they don’t agree with using the justification of a higher power’s commands.