Research noticeboard

PASTOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH ADULT CONGREGATION MEMBERS IN PENTECOSTAL FAITH COMMUNITIES IN AUSTRALIA

This research has Ethics Approval Number: 7427- HE31 with Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

We are looking to understand the experience of adult congregation members who have been inappropriately intimately involved with, or the victim survivor of Pastor sexual misconduct within Pentecostal faith communities (male or female pastors / leaders) in Australia

If you’d like to help with this study or promote the study, we are looking for participants who were 18 years or older when the sexual misconduct occurred and who are willing to fill in a confidential anonymous questionnaire about their experience.

If you would like to share this on social media we ask that you turn off comments for potential participant privacy.

Click on the QR code in the image, or you can go to the weblink for more information.

https://qsurvey.qut.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_3w3Edzcda37aTUq

AN INVESTIGATION INTO HOW WOMEN EXPERIENCE CHRISTIAN-SPECIFIC SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS CONTROL IN INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

I would like to invite you to take part in a confidential university study about how Christian-specific spiritual/religious control operates in intimate partner control.

This project is being conducted by student researcher Christine D’Souza as part of a PhD study at Victoria University.

Spiritual/religious controlling behaviours unique to intimate partner violence in Christian marriages have been identified as a particular form of manipulation, oppression, and abuse in the Christian socio-cultural context. However, scholarly research on resistance strategies Christian women use against spiritual/religious control tactics, and how these evolve over the duration of their relationships, is lacking.

The aim of this qualitative study is to understand what is involved in the process a Christian woman goes through in her experience of, and resistance to, Christian-specific spiritual/religious control in intimate partner violence, and how this process is influenced by the individuals, systems, and structures around her.

Participation in this study will include being interviewed once about your experience of hearing about spiritual/religious control from counselling clients, how they endured and resisted it over time, what influenced those experiences, and the challenges you faced in helping them. The interview will take 1 – 1.5 hours and may be conducted in-person or via Zoom.

Download the recruitment flyer.

To discuss the research, ask questions, or opt-in for participating, please contact me directly at Christine.dsouza@live.vu.edu.au.

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALE FOR EMOTIONAL SIGNATURES – Stage 3, Client cohort

I would like to invite you to take part in Stage 3 of our research project on emotional signature.

The emotional signature scale is being developed principally for practitioners.

Assessing a client’s emotional signature can assist practitioners to fine-tune the therapeutic relationship and chart a clinical pathway.

In 2022 we developed and tested our psychological scale for emotional signature.

Now, we are looking to see if the items we have selected are right for our clients.

We are looking for 100 individuals who are in individual or couple counselling or therapy who would like to complete this revised questionnaire.

The research has ethics approval with Macquarie University.

To be involved you will be asked to select and invite clients who you feel would be interested and resilient to complete a set of three psychological questionnaires and some biographical information.

If your clients complete the research, they can request a personal emotional signature profile that would be sent to you.

For further information on the project and how to select your clients, please contact: Michelle@Annandale.net.au

You can read the online information sheet here: https://annandale.net.au/research

You can have your clients participate here: https://annandale.net.au/research