The Experience of Spiritual Healing Among Adult Victim-Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A Phenomenological Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Child sexual abuse has a profound impact on individuals psychologically, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. The impact is compounded when the offender that committed the sexual abuse is a person of faith, a spiritual leader within the home or within the church. Through this qualitative research, adult victim-survivors of child sexual abuse, individuals that had been part of The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, share their stories of spiritual healing. Each of these individuals was abused by someone who represented the Christian faith. This thesis is deeply contextual. The research interest arises out of the researcher’s own experience as a Children’s Pastor and Consultant within The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. In accordance with the expectations of the Doctor of Ministry program at the Toronto School of Theology, this thesis begins by exposing the researcher’s personal context and is followed by an investigation of the theological and contemporary thoughts that influence the research study and application. A theology of ministry provides and shapes the background, for listening to the voices and stories of the participants. The qualitative research design relies primarily on the phenomenological narrative as shared through interviews with the participants. Through their conversations, the participants reveal what has nurtured their spiritual healing and courage to disclose their stories. The research suggests that now is the time for the church to embrace an incarnational model of the atonement, our words, responses and posture all need to be congruent in modelling the person and work of Jesus Christ to victim-survivors of abuse.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".