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. & Kola Babarinde, Ph.D.
Sunday,
12:00 - 12:30PM
Research
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A Survey of Legal and Legislative Professionals in Pennsylvania
Edward Lottick, M.D.
Friday,
11:30 - 12:00AM
Research
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After the Cult: Who Am I?
Leona Furnari, M.S.W.
Friday,
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Ex-member
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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Disorganized Cult?
Kevin Garvey
Friday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Group
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An Empirical Examination of Psychological Symptomatology among Different Coercive Group Types
Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.; Nicole Gullekson, Brian Uhlin & Lindsay Orchowski
Friday,
2:30 - 3:00PM
Research
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An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-personality and How it Forms
Gillie Jenkinson, M.A.
Saturday,
2:00 - 2:45PM
Mental Health
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Attachment, Networks, and Discourse in Extremist Political Organizations: A Comparative Case Study
Alexandra Stein, Ph.D.
Saturday,
09:00 - 09:35AM
Research
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Aum Shinrikyo: Its Current Situation
Taro Takimoto; Masaki Kito
Sunday,
9:00 - 10:30AM
Legal
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Authentic Writing and Cult Recovery
Daniel Shaw, CSW, Moderator; Fred Poole; Marta Szabo
Friday,
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Ex-member
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Avoiding Legal Entanglements When Writing
Takashi Yamaguchi, Esq.
Friday,
5:00 - 5:30PM
Miscellaneous
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Boundaries: Recognition and Repair after Leaving a Destructive Cult
Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C.
Saturday,
09:00 – 10:30AM
Ex-member
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Charisma in Absentia: Comparing Recruitment Session Leadership Strategies of Cults and New Religious Movements
Joshua Rosenblum, M.A.
Sunday,
10:00 - 10:30AM
Research
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Child Sexual Abuse in Cults: Can It Be Prevented?
Kimberlee Norris, Esq.
Sunday,
09:00 - 09:45AM
Miscellaneous
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Closing Comments
Philip Elberg, Esq., President ICSA
Sunday,
12:30 - 12:45PM
Miscellaneous
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Coping with Triggers
Carol Giambalvo; Joseph Kelly
Friday,
11:00 – 12:30 AM
Ex-member
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Cults and Creativity
Dana Wehle, L.C.S.W.
Friday,
4:45 - 5:30PM
Mental Health
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Cults and NRMs in Modern Literature
Dennis King
Sunday,
09:45 - 10:30AM
Miscellaneous
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Cults on Campus: Case of the JMS in Japanese Universities
Yoshihide Sakurai, Ph.D.
Saturday,
4:00 - 4:30PM
Miscellaneous
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Cults on Trial: Issues for the Forensic Mental Health Cult Expert
Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
Friday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Mental Health
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Cults, the Law, and Government: A Discussion
Moderator: Michael Kropveld; Marci Hamilton, J.D.; Francois Bellanger, Ph.D.; Masaki Kito, Esq.; Stephen Mutch, Ph.D., LL.B.; Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M.
Saturday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Legal
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Decline of the Gentle Wind Project: How Former Members Withstood a Lawsuit and Secured a Victory for Free Speech
James Bergin, M.A.; Matthew Bergin; Judy Garvey; Arthur Dole, Ph.D.; Cathleen Mann, Ph.D.
Saturday,
09:00 - 10:30AM
Group
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Deprogramming: A 24-Year Follow-up
Gabriel Brandis; Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D.
Saturday,
09:00 - 10:30AM
Research
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Description of Pre-Conditions of Cultic Personality Dependence: Results of Ukrainian Research into Nontraditional Religious Activity
Olena Lischynska, Ph.D.
Sunday,
11:30 - 12:00AM
Research
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Disconfirming Inaccurate, Self-Limiting Beliefs Formed Through Thought Reform with Corrective Emotional Experience
Colleen Russell, L.M.F.T.
Saturday,
5:00 - 5:30PM
Mental Health
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Dissociation and Depression in Treatment-Seeking Former Members of Contemplative Cults
Donna Adams
Friday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Research
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Dissociation and Self-Harm in Cultic Groups
Sharon K. Farber, Ph.D.
Sunday,
09:00 - 09:30AM
Mental Health
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Distinguished Legal Lecture: Religion, the Truth, and the Public Good (plenary session)
Marci Hamilton, M.A., J.D.
Saturday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Legal
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Divorce and Cults
Marybeth Ayella, Ph.D., Moderator; Carol Diament; Jenny Hunter
Saturday,
09:00 - 10:30AM
Family
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Educate, Communicate and Persevere: Coping with A Cult Experience
Walter and Julie Jacobs; Joseph Szimhart
Saturday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Family
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Elements of Harmful Cult Activity: An Exit Counselor’s Working Model
Joseph Szimhart
Sunday,
09:30 - 10:00AM
Mental Health
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Ex-Member Debriefing
Carol Giambalvo
Sunday,
11:00 – 12:30AM
Ex-member
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Exploring and Developing a Model and Theory of Totalistic Identity in Ex-Cult Members
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.
Saturday,
09:35 - 10:05AM
Research
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Four Approaches to Helping Families
Lois Svoboda, M.D., LMFT, Moderator; David Clark; Joseph Szimhart; Joseph Kelly/Patrick Ryan; Steve Hassan, M.Ed., LMHC, NCC
Sunday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Family
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Group and Individual Counseling with Cult Survivors from a Long-Term Trauma Theory Perspective
Michael Martella, M.A.
Sunday,
10:00 - 10:30AM
Mental Health
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Growing Up in Cults: The Special Issues of Children in Cults and Second Generation Cult Members
Alexandra Stein, Ph.D., Moderator; Juliana Buhring; Donna Collins, Michael Martella, MFT; Gina Catena, MS, CNM, NP
Saturday,
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Ex-member,Mental Health
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History of Japanese Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales and the Japan Society for Cult Prevention and Recovery
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Esq.
Friday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Legal
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How Grief Becomes Disenfranchised When Losing a Child
Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C.
Friday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Family
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How to Set Up and Facilitate a Support Group
William Goldberg, M.S.W, L.C.S.W..; Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Saturday,
09:00–10:30AM
Mental Health
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Identity Construction of Children Growing into Closed Religious Environments
Lorraine Derocher
Sunday,
09:00 - 09:30AM
Research
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Influence, Law, and Ethics in the 21st Century
Alan Scheflin, J.D., Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M.; Discussants: Francois Bellanger, Ph.D.; Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Masaki Kito, Esq.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.
Friday,
11:00 - 12:30PM
Legal
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Informal Case Presentations and Group Supervision - for Psychotherapists Working With Former Cult Members
Daniel Shaw, LCSW
Sunday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Mental Health
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Introductory Workshop for Mental Health Professionals
Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C
Thursday,
7:00–9:30PM
Mental Health
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Jehovah’s Witnesses: Being Freed from Disabling Hooks
Dan Clark
Sunday,
9:30 - 10:00AM
Group
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Manipulating Other People's Marriage for Money
Randy Kandel, Ph.D., J.D.
Saturday,
2:15 - 3:00PM
Legal
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Mind Control in the Cult “Orizzonti Nuovi”: A Schismatic Group of The Family – A Survey of Internal Sources
Dr. Cristina Caparesi
Friday,
5:00 - 5:30PM
Research
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Modeling Variables Relevant to Cult Recruitment and Continued Participation
Elisabeth Robbins, Ph.D., LMFT, LMHC
Friday,
11:00 - 11:30AM
Research
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Myths, Misnomers, and Missed Signals: Demystifying Cult Research
Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Moderator; Miriam Boeri, Ph.D.; Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.
Friday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Research
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Novel Unsupported Therapies: Pseudoscientific and Cult-Like Characteristics
Monica Pignotti, MSW, Moderator; James D. Herbert, Ph.D.; Jean Mercer, Ph.D.
Friday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Group
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Opening Keynote Address: The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since Jonestown?
Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Friday,
09:30 - 10:30AM
Miscellaneous
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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.
Saturday,
4:00 - 5:00PM
Mental Health
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Personal Accounts: Former Group Members from Japan
Yukari Yamamoto; others to be determined
Saturday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Ex-member
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Phoenix Project: Ex-Member Art and Literary Works
Diana Pletts
Sunday,
09:00 - 10:30AM
Ex-member
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Polygamy and Government: Policies, Powers and Limitations of State and Local Governments
Livia Bardin, M.S.W. Jane Irvine, ACSW, LCSW; Paul Murphy
Friday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Legal
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Polygamy: Recent Developments
Andrea Moore Emmett; Laura Chapman, Sylvia Mahr
Saturday,
2:00 - 3:00PM
Group
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Problems with Justification: How to Critique Cults Without Asking "How Abusive Was Your Experience?"
Alicia Juskewycz
Friday,
12:00 - 12:30PM
Research
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Psychological and Relational Harm in People Affected by Cults: A Preliminary Analysis
Miguel Perlado, Inma Sánchez, Luca Basile, Josep Mª Jansà, Núria Ribas, Vega González, Esther Maté, Marga Cano
Friday,
4:00 - 4:45PM
Mental Health
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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
Sunday,
10:00 - 10:30AM
Research
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Psychotherapy Facades and Legal Charades: My Adventures in the Land of Undue Influence
Sheila Rae Bradley
Sunday,
09:00 - 09;30AM
Group
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Public Policy and Cults in Europe
Francois Bellanger, Ph.D.
Saturday,
1:30 - 2:15PM
Legal
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Religion, the Truth, and the Public Good
Marci Hamilton, M.A., J.D.
Saturday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Legal
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Religion, the Truth, and the Public Good
Marci Hamilton, M.A., J.D.
Saturday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Legal
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Religious Conflict Resolution for Families
Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.; Patrick Ryan; Ronald Loomis
Friday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Family
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Research Network Meeting
Facilitator: Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.
Thursday,
7:00 - 9:00PM
Research
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Resiliency and Post Traumatic Growth in the Healing Journey towards Recovery
Doni Whitsett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Saturday,
2:45–3:30 PM
Mental Health
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Risk Factors for Therapists Working with Individuals and Families Who have been Affected by Destructive Cults
Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.
Friday,
2:00 - 2:45PM
Mental Health
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Roundtable on Theoretical Developments in the Field of Undue Influence and Cults
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D., Facilitator; Janja Lalich, Ph.D.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.; Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M.; Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D.
Saturday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Research
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Secular vs. Religious: Identity Issues for Individuals Exiting Bible-based Cults
Wendy and Doug Duncan
Saturday,
5:00 - 5:30PM
Miscellaneous
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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.
Saturday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Research
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Significant Cult Legal Cases in Japan
Masaki Kito, Esq.
Saturday,
09:00 - 10:30AM
Legal
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Since You've Been Gone: A reading of a new play about the cult experience, to be followed by audience discussion
Dolores W. Gregory
Saturday,
To Be AnnouncedPM
Miscellaneous
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Special Lunch Discussion Session: On Going to College or Graduate School After a Cult Experience
Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Friday,
12:30 - 2:00PM
Miscellaneous
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Special Session for Born or Raised (Second Generation)
Michael Martella, MFT; Joyce Martella
Friday,
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Ex-member
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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.
Friday,
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Ex-member
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Steve Hassan Reflects on 30 Years of Activism
Steven A. Hassan, M.Ed., LMHC, NCC
Saturday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Miscellaneous
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Terrorism and Cultic Studies: A Brief Overview
Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.
Sunday,
09:00 - 09:30AM
Research
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The Anti-Cult Cult
Ginger Zyskowski; Carol Giambalvo
Saturday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Group
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The Boundary between Cultic and Benign in Spiritual Groups
Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.
Friday,
11:00 - 11:45AM
Group
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The Continuum of Influence in Addictions Treatment: From Therapeutic Alliance to Undue Influence
Linda J. Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Roberta Eisenberg, M.S.W.; Steven Eisenberg
Friday,
2:45 - 3:30PM
Mental Health
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The Lifton Scale
Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.; Nicole Gullekson
Saturday,
10:05 - 10:30AM
Research
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The Marginals: People on the Boundary of a New Religious Movement
Eileen Barker, Ph.D.
Friday,
4:00 - 4:30PM
Research
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The Problem of “Sectarian Mentality” Within Church Communities
Piotr Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Friday,
4:30 - 5:00PM
Research
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The Puzzle of Brainwashing
Janja Lalich, Ph.D.; Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D.
Saturday,
4:00 - 5:30PM
Research
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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
Sunday,
09:30 - 10:00AM
Research
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The Socialization of Women into a Polygamous Lifestyle: The Experience of Canadian Fundamentalist Mormons
Marie-Andrée Pelland, Ph.D.; Dianne Casoni, Ph.D.
Sunday,
09:30 - 10:00AM
Research
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The Use of Coercive Influence by the Tough Love Industry
Philip Elberg, Esq.; Maia Szalavitz
Friday,
2:00 - 3:30PM
Group
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The Wellspring Treatment Model for Victims of Cults and Cultic Relationships
Paul R. Martin, Ph.D.; Donna Adams
Friday,
3:00 - 3:30PM
Research
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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
Sunday,
11:00 - 11:30AM
Research
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Update on Cult Legal Cases and Issues in Japan
Masaki Kito; Shuji Nakamura; Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Yamaguchi; Reiko Higashi
Sunday,
11:00 - 12:30AM
Legal
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Update on the International Churches of Christ and the Reemergence of Kip McKean
David Clark
Sunday,
10:00 - 10:30AM
Group
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Welcome and Introduction
Phillip Elberg, Esq.; Michael Langone, Ph.D.
Friday,
09:00 - 09:30AM
Miscellaneous
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Workshop for Family Members
Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.; Lois Svoboda, M.D., L.M.F.T.; Patrick Ryan
Thursday,
10:00 - 5:00AM
Family
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Workshop for Former Group Members
Carol Giambalvo; Joseph Kelly
Thursday,
10:00 - 5:00AM
Ex-member
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Workshop for Former Group Members: Optional Discussion Session: Born or Raised
Michael Martella, M.A.; Joyce Martella
Thursday:,
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Ex-member
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Workshop for Mental Health Professionals - Clinical Issues: Working with Families
Facilitators: Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Ph.D.; Roberta Eisenberg, M.S.W.
Thursday,
2:15 - 3:15PM
Mental Health
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Workshop for Mental Health Professionals - Clinical Issues: Working with First-Generation Former Cultists
Rachel Bernstein, MS.Ed., LMFT; Discussant: Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W.
Thursday,
11:00 - 12:00AM
Mental Health
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Workshop for Mental Health Professionals - Clinical Issues: Working with Second-Generation Former Cultists
Leona Furnari, M.S.W.; Michael Martella, M.F.T.
Thursday,
1:15 - 2:15PM
Mental Health
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Workshop for Mental Health Professionals: Clinical Roundtable for Mental Health Practitioners
Gillie Jenkinson, M.A.
Thursday,
3:30 - 5:00PM
Mental Health
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Workshop for Mental Health Professionals: Testifying in Court
William Goldberg, M.S.W.
Thursday,
10:00 - 11:00AM
Mental Health
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Writing as a Tool for Healing from the Trauma of a Cult Experience
Kristen DeVoe, M.Div., L.C.S.W.
Friday,
4:30 - 5:00PM
Miscellaneous
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Writing Case Studies
Sharon Farber, Ph.D.
Friday,
4:00 - 4:30PM
Miscellaneous
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