Abstract
This chapter defines what a cult is, what leads young people to join them, and what can be done to keep that from happening. For any given adolescent, a combination of risk factors, extraordinary stressors, limited coping mechanisms, and/or insufficient support systems could place him/her at risk for coming under the influence of a cult. The authors look at the interplay between risk factors and protective factors, as well as interventions to counter the effects of cult beliefs on individual adolescents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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Calles, J. L., Lagos, M., Kharit, T., Nazeer, A., Reed, J., & Sheikh, S. (2005). Religious Cults. In Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems (pp. 611–629). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23846-8_28
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