Dr. Diane Langberg and Amber discuss how her 50 year career working with trauma and abuse victims began, the similarity she encountered between veterans of war and abused women, the current reckoning of power abuse in the church, and pastors as shepherds.
Listening To Abuse and Trauma Survivors Questions Discussed:
- (3:20) Your career as a Christian psychologist began 50 years ago. And for those who are not familiar with your work, would you share your experience with your supervisor years ago who advised you not to listen to a woman who said, "My father did weird things to me"?
- (7:07) You began listening to the trauma and PTSD women and veterans were experiencing long before the term was used and the diagnosis existed. What were those first 10-20 years like?
- (8:38) What are some of the biggest lessons you've learned about treating people who have been abused? Have PTSD? Survivors?
- (10:10) Not only has your work included women and veterans, but pastors, leaders around the world. What have you learned about abuse and trauma on a global scale?
- (13:27) There were decades where pastors, clergy, church leaders who were accused of sexual abuse would have been referred to as having an affair Why is that not an appropriate term to use when pastor, clergy, youth leader, church leader has a sexual encounter with someone in their care? Why is that abuse vs. an affair?
- (19:08) Do you think the current rise in church abuse is just a trend or a genuine problem you see in our churches? Are people jumping on the #metoo, #churchtoo movement and it will fade?
- (22:54) How can you tell in a he said, she said situation who is the victim and who is the abuser?
- (26:05) What type of work does G.R.A.C.E. do? How are they helping promote healthy and safe environments in our churches?
- (29:10) As we close, what do you see as the day in, day out way to move forward, free and unified in Christ?
SHOW NOTES cont.
Resources Mentioned (affiliate links):
- netgrace.org
- FREE Spiritual Hurt Resource page
- Book: Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church by Dr. Diane Langberg
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