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Originally Posted by feralkittymom
Perhaps you cited the wrong link? I only read the abstract of this dissertation, but the sample size was only 59 psychologists, and the most salient conclusions were that sexual abuse is perpetrated more often by male Ts with female clients; Ts at midlife, experiencing a recent loss, and that childhood emotional abuse was the strongest predictor.
So the lesson I would take from this is to avoid male Ts who experienced emotional abuse in childhood. I can predict an outcry of reponses denouncing such "advice." Agreed--because correlation is not causation.
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It must no give the whole paper, which is too long anyway at over 100 pages. I was citing a citation within this paper, not their actual findings of this paper. We all know that correlation does not equal causation, but such findings will raise awareness of the link. Whether it has any real relationship is yet to be seen. But but it certainly makes an awful lot of sense as it would in any situation where people are exploited or victimized. This paper is interesting for the fact alone it that psychologists who had been sanctioned for violations and lost their licenses actually agreed to participate.