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RETRACTED: Effects of Therapy on Religious Men Who Have Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction
- Source :
- The Linacre quarterly. 87(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The American Psychological Association and other organizations have formally claimed that sexual orientation change therapies should not be used because they are probably ineffective and may cause harm. A survey asking for negative and positive experiences of 125 men with active lay religious belief who went through sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) strongly conflicted with those claims. In our study, most of those who participated in group or professional help had heterosexual shifts in sexual attraction, sexual identity and behavior with large statistical effect sizes, similarly moderate-to-marked decreases in suicidality, depression, substance abuse, and increases in social functioning and self-esteem. Almost all harmful effects were none to slight. Prevalence of help or hindrance, and effect size, were comparable with those for conventional psychotherapy for unrelated mental health issues. Judged by this survey, these therapies are very beneficial for lay religious people, but no Catholic pries...
- Subjects :
- Sexual identity
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
Sexual attraction
Health Policy
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Self-esteem
06 humanities and the arts
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
medicine.disease
Mental health
Substance abuse
03 medical and health sciences
Philosophy
0302 clinical medicine
Harm
medicine
Sexual orientation
060301 applied ethics
Homosexuality
Psychology
media_common
Clinical psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00243639
- Volume :
- 87
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Linacre quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c5ee210804f34fa628924c526f04378d