Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality, 2024
Year: 2024
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Psychological Therapies for The Treatment of Disfellowshipment Following Post Conversion Therapy: A Scoping Review
Matthew Broadway-Horner
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Background: To investigate, understand and identify psychological interventions that improve outcomes for sexual minorities who have been disfellowshipped following conversion therapy. Objective: To recognize and assess the results from all studies including randomised control trials that have studied the efficiency of psychiatric and psychological assessment of SMIQ who have a mental illness after leaving conversion therapy and disfellowshipment from a religious organisation, presenting to Mental health departments/facilities. Method: This scoping review including randomised controlled trials of psychiatric and psychological therapy treatments. one study was found or selected according to types of engagement and intervention received. The search included Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) available in databases since 1983 in the Willey version of the Cochrane controlled trials register in 1983 till 2023, Psych INFO, Medline, Google Scholar and from manually searching of journals were included. Participants who undergo conversion therapy and disfellowshippment prior to entry into the study or RCT. Studies which included information on repetition concealment, unprotected sex, and substance abuse behaviours, were also included. Altogether this amounts to zero randomised study participants with outcome data. 2 participants in total opens the discussion on future directions. Results: Minimal results to conclude upon. Discussion on future research and inquiry. Introducing a positive autoethnography adapting the model created by Tedeschi and Calhoun (2004) to create the Post Conversion Recovery process to aid recovery. Conclusion: Studies are needed to investigate the devastating impact of conversion therapy and disfellowshippment from a fundamentalist religious organisation. Sexual minorities in this group are twice as likely to commit suicide which is far higher compared to other SMIQ and heterosexual society numbers.
keywords: Proximal stressors; internalized homophobia; recovery post conversion therapy; lived experience, positive autoethnography, EMDR