Explore the seven stages of grooming in adult clergy sexual exploitation, power imbalances, and the need for awareness and prevention in faith communities.

Understanding adult clergy sexual exploitation requires insight into spiritual abuse and the psychological dynamics that make victims more vulnerable. This article explores how cognitive dissonance, schema chemistry, and reverence for spiritual leaders can cloud victims' perceptions, making abuse harder to recognize. Highlighting the importance of appropriate vulnerability in relationships and the misuse of pastoral authority, it addresses the spiritual harm victims experienc

Explore the psychological factors behind why individuals join, remain in and become complicit in spiritually abusive environments