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A theoretical foundation for understanding clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse
Jason M Fogler1, Jillian C Shipherd, Erin Rowe
1The Brookline Center, Brookline, MA 02445, USA. jfogler@bu.edu
Abstract:
Incorporating elements from broadband theories of psychological adaptation to extreme adversity, including Summit's (1983) Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, Finkelhor and Browne's (1986) Traumagenic Dynamics Model of sexual abuse, and Pyszczynski and colleagues' (1997) Terror Management Theory, this paper proposes a unified theoretical model of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse for future research. The model conceptualizes clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse as the convergence of interactive processes between the clergy-perpetrator, the parishioner-survivor, and the religious community.
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