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Conference - Agenda

   

2008 Annual International Conference

Philadelphia, PA

June 26 - 29, 2008

 


 

Time

Event

Room / Track

8:00 a.m.

6:00 p.m.

Bookstore

Friday - Sunday

 

Thursday, June 26 – Pre-Conference Workshops

9:00 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 5:00

Workshop for Former Group Members

Carol Giambalvo; Joseph Kelly

[For ex-members only]

Ex-Member

10:00 – 5:00

Workshop for Family Members

Michael Langone, Ph.D.; Patrick Ryan; Ron Loomis

Family

10:00 – 5:30

Workshop for Mental Health Professionals 

Testifying in Court (William Goldberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.) – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Clinical Issues: Working with First-Generation Former Cultists (Rachel Bernstein, MS.Ed., LMFT) – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Clinical Issues: Working with Second-Generation Former Cultists (Leona Furnari, M.S.W.; Michael Martella, M.F.T.)– 1:15 – 2:15 p.m.

Clinical Issues: Working with Families (Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Roberta Eisenberg, M.S.W.) – 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.

Clinical Roundtable for Mental Health Practitioners (Facilitator: Gillie Jenkinson, M.A.) – 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

[For mental health professionals only]

Mental Health

varies

Lunch

varies

Break

5:00 – 7:00

Dinner Break

6:00 –

11:00

ICSA Social at the Sheraton University Hotel

Fairmont Room

7:00 – 9:00

Optional Discussion Session: Born or Raised

Michael Martella, M.A.; Joyce Martella

[Session is only for people born or raised in high-demand groups.]

Ex-Member

7:00 – 9:00

Introductory Workshop for Mental Health Professionals

Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C.;  Rachel Bernstein, Ms.Ed., LMFT; Leona Furnari, M.S.W.

Mental Health

7:00 – 9:00

Research Network Meeting 

Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.

Research

Friday, June 27

8:00 – 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 9:30

Welcome and Introduction

Phil Elberg; Michael D. Langone, Ph.D

Awards

William Goldberg, M.S.W.

 

9:30 – 10:30

The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since Jonestown?

Janja Lalich, Ph.D.

Keynote Address

10:30 –11:00

Break

11:00 – 12:30

Coping with Triggers

Carol Giambalvo; Joseph Kelly

[For ex-members only]

Ex-Member

The Boundary Between Cultic and Benign in Spiritual Groups

Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.

Problems With Justification: How to Critique Cults Without Asking "How Abusive Was Your Experience? 

Alicia Juskewycz

Research

Cults on Trial: Issues  for the Forensic Mental Health Cult Expert (Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP

[For mental health professionals only]

Mental Health

Myths, Misnomers, and Missed Signals: Demystifying Cult Research 

Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Moderator

The Naming Game: Why Academics Should be Concerned about Terms

Miriam Boeri, Ph.D.

What the Scholars Missed and Why they Missed Them: A Retrospective Examination of Several Major “Cult” Stories from the End of the Twentieth Century

Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.

Research

How Grief Becomes Disenfranchised When Losing a Child

Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C.

Family

Influence, Law, and Ethics in the 21st Century

Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M.; Discussants: .; Francois Bellanger, Ph.D.; Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Masaki Kito, Esq; Paul Martin, Ph.D.

Legal

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch

 

 

Special Lunch Discussion Session: On Going to College or Graduate School After a Cult Experience

Moderator: Janja Lalich, Ph.D. (Meet at the conference bookstore.  If you haven’t already, e-mail Dr. Lalich at jlalich@csuchico.edu).  Open only to ex-members.

 

2:00 – 3:30

Starting Out: A Discussion of Key Practical Issues People Face When They Leave Cults—Housing, Employment, Education, Social Skills, etc.

Livia Bardin, M.S.W.

Ex-Member

Authentic Writing and Cult Recovery

Daniel Shaw, LCSW, Moderator; Fred Poole; Marta Szabo

Ex-Member

The Use of Coercive Influence by the Tough Love Industry

Phil Elberg, Esq.; Maia Szalavitz

Group

Risk Factors for Therapists Working with Individuals and Families Who have been Affected by Destructive Cults

Linda J. Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.

The Continuum of Influence in Addictions Treatment: From Therapeutic Alliance to Undue

Linda J. Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Roberta Eisenberg, M.S.W.; Steven Eisenberg

Mental Health

Dissociation and Depression in Treatment-Seeking Former Members of Contemplative Cults

Donna Adams, Ph.D.

An Empirical Examination of Psychological Symptomatology among Different Coercive Group Types

Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.; Nicole Gullekson, Brian Uhlin & Lindsay Orchowski

The Wellspring Treatment Model for Victims of Cults and Cultic Relationships: Research and Mental Health

Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.; Donna Adams, Ph.D.

Research

Religious Conflict Resolution for Families

Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.; Patrick Ryan

Family

History of Japan’s National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales and the Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery

Shuji Nakamura Esq, Masaki Kito Esq, Taro Takimoto Esq.

Legal

3:30 –4:00

Break

4:00 –5:30

Special Session for Born or Raised (Second Generation)

Michael Martella, MFT; Joyce Martella

[For second-generation ex-members only]

Ex-Member

After the Cult: Who Am I?

Leona Furnari, M.S.W.

[For ex-members only]

Ex-Member

Novel Unsupported Therapies: Pseudoscientific and Cult-Like Characteristics

Monica Pignotti, MSW, Moderator; James D. Herbert, Ph.D.; Jean Mercer, Ph.D.

Group

Cults and Creativity

Dana Wehle, L.C.S.W.; Gillie Jenkinson, M.A.

Mental Health

The Marginals: People on the Boundary of a New Religious Movement

Eileen Barker, Ph.D.

Mind Control in the Cult “Orizzonti Nuovi”: A Schismatic Group of The Family – A Survey of Internal Sources

Dr. Cristina Caparesi

The Problem of “Sectarian Mentality” Within Church Communities

Piotr Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D.

Research

Writing Case Studies

Sharon Farber, Ph.D.

Writing as a Tool for Healing from the Trauma of a Cult Experience

Kristen Skedgell

Avoiding Legal Entanglements When Writing

Takashi Yamaguchi, Esq.

Miscellaneous

Polygamy and Government: Policies, Powers and Limitations of State and Local Governments 

Livia Bardin, M.S.W.  Jane Irvine, ACSW, LCSW; Paul Murphy

Legal

5:30 – 7:00

Dinner Break

6:00 – 11:00

ICSA Social at the Sheraton University Hotel

Fairmont Room

7:30 – 9:00

“Since You've Been Gone” – s script-in-hand staged reading of a new play about the cult experience, to be followed by audience discussion

D. W. Gregory

 

7:00 – 11:00

The Phoenix Project Exhibit

 

Saturday, June 28

8:00 – 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 10:30

Boundaries: Recognition and Repair after Leaving a Destructive Cult

Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C.

[For ex-members only]

Ex-Member

Decline of the Gentle Wind Project: How Former Members Withstood a Lawsuit and Secured a Victory for Free Speech

James Bergin, M.A.; Judy Garvey; Arthur Dole, Ph.D.; Cathleen Mann, Ph.D.

Group

How to Set Up and Facilitate a Support Group

William Goldberg, M.S.W.; Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W.

Mental Health

Deprogramming:  A 24-Year Follow-up

Gabriel Brandis; Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.

Research

Sociological Analysis of Former Adherents and Families of Former Adherents: Discourse About Leaving New Religious Movements in Spain

María del Mar Ramos-Lorente, Ph.D.

Pedro Castón-Boyer, Ph.D.

Exploring and Developing a Model and Theory of Totalistic Identity in Ex-Cult Members

Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.

The Lifton Scale

Paul Martin, Ph.D.; Nicole Gullekson.

Research

Divorce and Cults

Marybeth Ayella, Ph.D., Carol Diament  write to them

A Survey of Legal and Legislative Professionals in Pennsylvania

Edward Lottick, M.D.

Family

Research

Significant Cult Legal Cases in Japan

Masaki Kito, Esq. ; Takashi Yamaguchi, Esq.; Yukari Yamamoto

Legal

10:30 –11:00

Break

11:00 –12:30

Religion, the Truth, and the Public Good

Marci Hamilton, M.A., J.D.

Distinguished Legal Lecture

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch

2:00 – 3:30

Growing up in Cults: The Special Issues of Children in Cults and Second Generation Cult Members

Moderator: Joyce Martella

Advocating for Children’s Rights

Juliana Buhring

A Climate of Fear

Donna Collins

The Masks We Wore

Michael Martella, MFT

Post-Cult Identity Issues for Second Generation Adults

Gina Catena, MS., CNM, NP

Ex-Member

Mental Health

Polygamy: Recent Developments

Moderator: Michael Kropveld; Andrea Moore-Emmett; Laura Chapman; Sylvia Mahr

Group

An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality and How it Forms

Gillie Jenkinson, M.A.

Resiliency and Post Traumatic Growth in the Healing Journey towards Recovery

Doni Whitsett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

Mental Health

Roundtable on Theoretical Developments in the Field of Undue Influence and Cults

Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D., Facilitator; Janja Lalich, Ph.D.; Michael Langone, Ph.D.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.; Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M.; Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D.

Research

Steve Hassan Reflects on 30 Years of Activism

Steven Hassan, M.Ed, LMHC, NCC

Miscellaneous

Educate, Communicate and Persevere: Coping with a Cult Experience

Walter and Juliet Jacobs; Joseph Szimhart

Family

Public Policy and Cults in Europe

Francois Bellanger

Manipulating Other People’s Marriage for Money

Randy Kandel, Ph.D., J.D.

Legal

3:30 – 4:00

Break

4:00 – 5:30

The Anti-Cult Cult

Ginger Zyskowski; Carol Giambalvo

Group

Parental Alienation Syndrome and the Cult of Parenthood  

Amy J. L. Baker, Ph.D.; Discussants: William Goldberg, M.S.W.; Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W. (4:00 – 5:00)

Disconfirming Inaccurate, Self-Limiting Beliefs Formed Through Thought Reform with Corrective Emotional Experience

Colleen Russell, L.M.F.T. (5:00 – 5:30)

Mental Health

The Puzzle of Brainwashing

Pruning the Brainwashing Concept in Order to Save It

Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Why We Need to Recognize Brainwashing and Its Close and Distant Cousins

Janja Lalich, Ph.D.

Research

Self-Report Measures of Psychological Abuse

Carmen Almendros, Ph.D., Moderator; José Antonio Carrobles, Ph.D.; Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Kimiaki Nishida, Ph.D.; Álvaro Rodríguez-Carballeira, Ph.D.

Research

Cults on Campus: Case of the JMS in Japanese Universities

Yoshihide Sakurai, Ph.D.

Secular vs. Religious: Identity Issues for Individuals Exiting Bible-based Cults

Wendy and Doug Duncan

A Japanese Rehabilitation Center

Itaro Takesako

Miscellaneous

Cults, the Law, and Government: A Discussion

Moderator: Michael Kropveld; Francois Belanger, Ph.D.; Masaki Kito, Esq.; Stephen Mutch, Ph.D., LL.B., LL.B.; Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M.

Legal

5:30 – 7:30

Dinner Break

6:00 – 11:00

ICSA Social at the Sheraton University Hotel

Fairmont Room

7:00 – 11:00

The Phoenix Project Exhibit

 

8:00 – 10:00

Film: “Vows of Silence” (60 minutes), followed by panel discussion.

J. Paul Lennon; Juan Vaca; Piotr Nowakowski, Ph.D.

 

Sunday, June 29

8:00 – 9:00

Registration

 

9:00 – 10:30

Dissociation and Self-Harm in Cultic Groups

Sharon Farber, Ph.D.

A Razor's Edge Indeed: An Exit Counselor's Working Model of Harmful Cult Activity

Joseph Szimhart

Group and Individual Counseling with Cult Survivors from a Long-Term Trauma Theory Perspective

Michael Martella, M.F.T.

Mental Health

Psychotherapy Facades and Legal Charades: My Adventures in the Land of Undue Influence

Sheila Rae Bradley 

Jehovah’s  Witnesses: Being Freed from Disabling Hooks

Dan Clark

Update on the International Churches of Christ and the Reemergence of Kip McKean 

David Clark

Group

Terrorism and Cultic Studies: A Brief Overview 

Michael Langone, Ph.D.

The Red Mosque: A Case Study of How Religion can Evolve into a Terrorist Cult

Ana Ballesteros Peiró; M. Jesus Martin Lopez; Jose Manuel Martinez

Psychological Violence Strategies of the ETA Terrorist Network in the Basque Country: An Exploratory Study

Javier Martín-Peña; Álvaro Rodríguez-Carballeira; Jordi Escartín; Clara Porrúa; Federico Javaloy

Research

Identity Construction of Children Growing into Closed Religious Environments

Lorraine Derocher

The Socialization of Women into a Polygamous Lifestyle: The Experience of Canadian Fundamentalist Mormons

Marie-Andree Pelland, Ph.D.; Dianne Casoni, Ph.D.

Charisma in Absentia: How the Orientation Leaders of New Religious Movements Suggest to Recruits the Personal Relevance of Their Beliefs

Joshua Rosenblum, M.A.

Research

Aum Shinrikyo: Its Current Situation

Taro Takimoto, Esq.; Masaki Kito, Esq.

Legal

Child Sexual Abuse in Cults: Can it be Prevented

Kimberlee Norris, Esq.

Cults and NRMs in Modern Literature

Dennis King

Miscellaneous

10:30 – 11:00

Break

11:00 – 12:30

Ex-Member Debriefing

Carol Giambalvo

[For ex-members only]

Ex-Member

Informal Case Presentations and Group Supervision - for Psychotherapists Working with Former Cult Members

Facilitator: Daniel Shaw, LCSW

[For mental health professionals only]

Mental Health

Thirty Years of Treatment for Individuals and Families Affected by Psychologically Manipulative Groups (GMP): An Epidemiological Perspective

Núria Ribas, Josep Maria Jansà, Luca Basile, Inma Sánchez, Vega González, Miguel Perlado, Esther Maté, Marga Cano, Teresa Fernández

Description of Pre-Conditions of Cultic  Personality Dependence: Results of Ukrainian Research into Nontraditional Religious Activity

Olena Lischynska, Ph.D.

A Causal Model of Some Perceived Socio-Psychological and Academic Factors as Determinants of Cult Membership Among University Students in Southwestern Nigeria

Adesoji A. Oni, Ph.D.; Sikiru Adekola Babarinde, Ph.D.

Research

Four Approaches to Helping Families

Moderator:  Lois Svoboda, M.D., LMFT; David Clark; Joseph Szimhart ; Joseph Kelly/Patrick Ryan; Steve Hassan, M.Ed, LMHC, NCC

Family

Update on Cult Legal Cases and Issues in Japan

Masaki Kito, Esq. ; Shuji Nakamura, Esq.; Takashi Yamaguchi, Esq.; Reiko Higashi, Esq.

Legal

12:30 – 1:00

About Next Year’s Conference

Michael Langone, Ph.D.; Michael Kropveld

Closing Comments

Philip Elberg, Ph.D.

Plenary

 

 

Schedule is subject to change without notice.

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