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Why read this book?
This book helps clergy and lay leaders think through and develop policies for confidentiality, financial information, and communications between staff and congregants. Readers will reduce the risk of running into hurtful situations and possible litigation. |
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- Preventing
Sexual Abuse in Congregations:
A Resource for Leaders
by Dr. Karen A. McClintock - Sexual
Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing
by Dr. Karen A. McClintock
Preventing
Sexual Abuse in Congregations:
A Resource for Leaders
Dr. Karen A. McClintock
Preventing
Sexual Abuse in Congregations is compelling, to the point,
and practical; it is also a must-read for clergy and lay leaders
in churches, synagogues, and other religious organizations. This
superb book, which can be easily understood and appreciated by
both professionals and nonprofessionals, fulfills an important
need in contemporary religion. Dr. Lawrence J. Ryan
Are you ready to abuse-proof your congregation?
If one child or adult is spared the confusing ordeal of unwanted
touch, it will be worth your time to read this book. In this
comprehensive resource, Methodist pastor and pastoral psychologist
Karen McClintock demonstrates that sexual abuse in congregations
is preventable and gives clergy and lay leaders the tools they
need to prevent sexual abuse in congregations. This book shows
congregations how to protect children and vulnerable adults,
prevent sexual harassment either by clergy or of clergy, and
strengthen clergy families by raising awareness of the occupational
and emotional risks inherent in pastoral ministry.
When you have finished this book, you will be familiar with conditions
in parishes and in the mental health of individuals within them
that lead to risky behaviors. You will be equipped to recognize
and set sexual boundaries for yourself and to open dialogue about
these issues in your congregation. You will have laughed at,
celebrated, and honored human sexual power, pleasure, and vulnerability.
You will have gained the knowledge you need, and perhaps the
courage, to communicate these ideas within your congregation
so that children and vulnerable adults are protected. (From the
Foreword by Dr. Nancy Meyer Hopkins)
ISBN 1-56699-295-8; paper
$18.00 ($13.50 for Alban Institute members)
Purchase at: The Alban Institute
Sexual
Shame:
An Urgent Call to Healing
Dr. Karen A. McClintock
Are you carrying shame about a past or
current sexual desire, abuse, or behavior? This book identifies
the assumptions, theology, and traditions that often contribute
to sexual shame. Many readers have been helped to release their
shame and claim their God-given worthiness by reading this book.
Chapter one provides an historic overview of theories of sexual
shame; chapter two provides a theological framework for exploring
issues of sexual shame; chapter three reviews Judeo-Christian
biblical perspectives on sexuality; chapter four identifies twentieth
century cultural shifts in perspectives and attitudes on human
sexuality and marriage that provide the context for the experience
of sexual shame; chapter five identifies shame-based distortions
of human sexuality; chapter six delineates the congregational
context of sexual shame; chapters seven and eight offer models
of recovery from sexual shame for both individuals and congregations.
ISBN 8006-3238-9; paper
Purchase at: Fortress Press
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