Time: Self-Paced (8 hours)
Location: Online
Instructors: Dr. Janja Lalich and Natalie Fabert, Ph.D.
Overarching CE Goals: This course will help therapists attain the foundational knowledge, awareness, and skills needed to work with self-identified cult survivors.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this CE course, students will be able to:
1. Describe why specialized knowledge is essential when supporting clients with lived experience in cultic environments.
2. Evaluate key socio-historical and contextual factors that shape contemporary discourse and public understanding of cults.
3. Describe the defining characteristics of cults, including the four core structural dimensions that distinguish them from other groups.
4. Investigate the individual and group-level influences that contribute to cult involvement.
5. Explain theories of cult member retention and radicalization, focusing on social psychological mechanisms.
6. Identify the biopsychosocial impacts of cultic abuse, and asses the hierarchical needs of cult survivors.
7. Implement evidence-based strategies to build trust, ensure psychological safety, and foster collaborative engagement in therapeutic work with cult survivors.
8. Develop trauma-informed treatment planning strategies tailored to the complex clinical needs of cult survivors.
Target Audience & Instructional Level: Introductory; Mental Health Care Clinicians
CE Credits: 8 hours
Cost: $250 for CE-seeking participants
The Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Presented by Janja Lalich, PhD., internationally recognized expert on Cults and Coercion, and Natalie Fabert, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, with guest appearances from other experts in the field, including:
Rachel Bernstein, LMFT
Dr. Jamie Marich
Daniel Shaw - author, Traumatic Narcissism
Khristina Berger
Melanie Friedman
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