By John Tharakan sdb
Hyderabad, Feb. 23. Bosco Psychological Services, New Delhi Province, celebrated its 10 years of service to the Province and the Church with a well attended 3 day workshop on Sexuality, Celibacy and Boundary Violations: Understanding and Helping the Victim and the Offender. The programme started on 18th February morning and ended on 20th evening. The resource persons were Dr. Tony Robinson, clinical psychologist and CEO and Dr. Gerardine Taylor, Clinical Director, of Encompass Australasia. Encompass is a residential treatment centre in Sydney, Australia for professionals, clergy, religious men and women who are struggling with sexual issues.
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65 participants from different congregations and dioceses from all over India,
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Topics dealt with at the workshop included: Sexual Abuse of Children, Professional Sexual Misconduct, Sexually Exploitative Clergy, Internet Pornography, Understanding and Helping the Victim and the Offender, and Implications for Formation of Clergy and Religious. Many issues that came up from the floor, including groups, were taken up for discussion.
During three days of intense discussions and sharing, the participants felt the enormity of the problem facing us today. They felt that more programmes to create awareness of issues around sexual boundary violations and the systemic dynamics that perpetuate the problem, and to develop skills to help victims and perpetrators, are very necessary and urgent.
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Participants expressed great satisfaction about the programme—the content as well as the organisation, and how useful it had been to them. They were especially touched by the compassion with which Tony Robinson and Gerardine Taylor presented the issue of boundary violations and very appreciative of their competence in dealing with the issue.
naar het hele artikel toegevoegd 14-9-08 bron
Hyderabad, Feb. 23. Bosco Psychological Services, New Delhi Province, celebrated its 10 years of service to the Province and the Church with a well attended 3 day workshop on Sexuality, Celibacy and Boundary Violations: Understanding and Helping the Victim and the Offender. The programme started on 18th February morning and ended on 20th evening. The resource persons were Dr. Tony Robinson, clinical psychologist and CEO and Dr. Gerardine Taylor, Clinical Director, of Encompass Australasia. Encompass is a residential treatment centre in Sydney, Australia for professionals, clergy, religious men and women who are struggling with sexual issues.
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65 participants from different congregations and dioceses from all over India,
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Topics dealt with at the workshop included: Sexual Abuse of Children, Professional Sexual Misconduct, Sexually Exploitative Clergy, Internet Pornography, Understanding and Helping the Victim and the Offender, and Implications for Formation of Clergy and Religious. Many issues that came up from the floor, including groups, were taken up for discussion.
During three days of intense discussions and sharing, the participants felt the enormity of the problem facing us today. They felt that more programmes to create awareness of issues around sexual boundary violations and the systemic dynamics that perpetuate the problem, and to develop skills to help victims and perpetrators, are very necessary and urgent.
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Participants expressed great satisfaction about the programme—the content as well as the organisation, and how useful it had been to them. They were especially touched by the compassion with which Tony Robinson and Gerardine Taylor presented the issue of boundary violations and very appreciative of their competence in dealing with the issue.
naar het hele artikel toegevoegd 14-9-08 bron
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