For professionals
Field-specific framings of CLCI, BITE, and high-control-group dynamics for therapists, teachers, doctors, journalists, and lawyers.
Introduction
The pages in this hub are written for professionals who encounter high-control-group involvement in their work — therapists, teachers, GPs, journalists, lawyers, social workers, and advocates. The underlying material on this site (tactic profiles, group profiles, methodology pages) is the substantive content; these pages translate it into the framings, vocabularies, and decision points each profession is likely to recognise.
None of these pages is a substitute for formal continuing-professional-development training in your field; they are signposts.
Pages in this hub
- For therapists.
- For teachers and schools.
- For doctors and nurses.
- For journalists.
- For lawyers and advocates.
- For educators (higher / adult education, libraries, careers).
- For community leaders (faith leaders, neighbourhood organisers, charity staff).
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- For therapistsWorking clinically with current or former members of high-control groups — what the cult-recovery literature consistently finds.
- For teachers and schoolsRecognising and responding to high-control-group dynamics affecting students, with statutory safeguarding routes.
- For doctors and nursesMedical encounters with current or former high-control-group members — the patterns that often present, and the safeguarding intersections.
- For journalistsReporting accurately on high-control groups without amplifying recruitment or causing avoidable harm to current and former members.
- For lawyers and advocatesLegal frames that map (or don't) onto high-control-group cases — family, financial, criminal, regulatory.
- For educatorsField-specific framing for university lecturers, adult educators, librarians, careers advisers, and others outside the school safeguarding context.
- For community leadersField-specific framing for faith leaders, neighbourhood organisers, community-centre managers, charity workers, and others in community-leadership roles encountering high-control-group dynamics in their work.
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