The damage from sexual abuse cannot be treated by simply punishing offenders, writes the psychologist and former military chaplain Edwin T. Collins. But the church can help survivors by adapting post traumatic stress disorder models.
Edwin T. Collins
Dr. Edwin T. Collins is a transcultural psychologist who provided diagnostic services for ethno-lingual populations in western and central New York State school districts and agencies. He has also served as a missionary based in Puerto Rico, a Newman Center chaplain at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an adjunct professor at Canisius College in Buffalo.