What Makes a Group High-Control? A Clinical Framework for Practitioners

Many practitioners suspect cult involvement in a client's history but don't have the clinical language to work with it. This session introduces the foundational frameworks, including Lifton's thought reform criteria and Lalich's bounded choice to help practitioners understand what high-control groups actually do, and why leaving is never as simple as it looks from the outside. You'll leave with a clearer framework for pattern recognition and a set of questions that open clinical conversations without requiring a verdict.

45min - 15 minute presentation | 30 minute Q&A

$20AUD