From the Experts: Clerical Abuse
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Note from the Editor: This article contains discussions of abuse. Reader discretion is advised.
This article was written for the SDC by psychologist and member @Jan A. Jan A. works part-time, taking on clients under the Medicare Mental Health Care Plans. She works with people of all ages, from children to seniors!
Abuse can take place in any organisation where there is an imbalance of power such that one person can hold over another the threat of significant financial or other losses. It happens in workplaces of all kinds where a person’s livelihood is at threat if they object to predatory behaviours by a more senior person in the organisation. It happens in families where a predator/s will use their position of trust to engage in abusive sexual behaviours towards other family members, knowing that their targets will not reveal the abuse for fear of not being believed or being rejected by the family.
Abuse that happens in religious organisations is about a person’s faith. It involves a threat to the person’s belief system and plays upon their trust in those who mediate their beliefs to them.
In this discussion, the term ‘clerical abuse’ will be used to refer to people in positions of spiritual authority in any religion illegitimately exercising their influence for personal gain, usually sexual in nature. The term ‘cleric’ includes any person with authority within a religion. They may or may not be officially appointed, but they hold authority over members of that religious organisation. By their selfish actions, the cleric betrays the faith and trust of their targets while revealing themselves as hypocrites.
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This article was written for the SDC by psychologist and member @Jan A. Jan A. works part-time, taking on clients under the Medicare Mental Health Care Plans. She works with people of all ages, from children to seniors!
Abuse can take place in any organisation where there is an imbalance of power such that one person can hold over another the threat of significant financial or other losses. It happens in workplaces of all kinds where a person’s livelihood is at threat if they object to predatory behaviours by a more senior person in the organisation. It happens in families where a predator/s will use their position of trust to engage in abusive sexual behaviours towards other family members, knowing that their targets will not reveal the abuse for fear of not being believed or being rejected by the family.
Abuse that happens in religious organisations is about a person’s faith. It involves a threat to the person’s belief system and plays upon their trust in those who mediate their beliefs to them.
In this discussion, the term ‘clerical abuse’ will be used to refer to people in positions of spiritual authority in any religion illegitimately exercising their influence for personal gain, usually sexual in nature. The term ‘cleric’ includes any person with authority within a religion. They may or may not be officially appointed, but they hold authority over members of that religious organisation. By their selfish actions, the cleric betrays the faith and trust of their targets while revealing themselves as hypocrites.
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