294: Childhood Sexual Abuse with Dr. Barbara Morrell

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2011

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In today’s interview, Natasha Helfer Parker interviews Dr. Barbara Morrell — a licensed psychologist working in the Brigham Young University Counselling and Psychological Services. She divides her time between doing psychotherapy and coordinating the Stress Management and Biofeedback Services. Her interest in and experience with treating childhood sexual abuse began during her masters program in 1985 working as a volunteer counselor with AMACs (Adults Molested as Children). She received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from BYU in 1997 and wrote her dissertation on adult men who had been sexually abused as children. Barbara began working in the BYU Counseling Center in 1996 and for many years was the sexual assault liaison between the center and the University Police, county law enforcement, and other agencies. Students who had been sexually assaulted were referred directly to her for immediate help and ongoing therapy. Dr. Morrell has served two LDS missions, one to Taiwan at the normal missionary age, and 10 years later she took a leave of absence from her work as a high school counselor for a second mission to Geneva Switzerland. She loves teaching in the Church and loved working for two years as a temple worker in the Provo temple.

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0:29.1	Hello and welcome to Mormon Stories.
0:30.7	This is Natasha Helfer Parker and today I am privileged to be interviewing Dr. Barbara
0:36.9	Morrell who is a licensed psychologist working at Brigham Young University and their counseling
0:42.2	and psychological services.
0:44.5	She divides her time between doing psychotherapy and coordinating the stress management and
0:48.7	biofeedback services.
0:50.7	Her interest in an experience with treating childhood sexual abuse began during her master's
0:55.8	program in 1985 working as a volunteer counselor with adults molested as children and that
1:01.5	will be our topic today is childhood and adolescent sexual abuse.
1:06.5	She received her PhD in counseling psychology from BYU in 1997.
1:11.6	She wrote her dissertation on adult men who had been sexually abused as children.
1:17.6	She began working in the BYU counseling center in 1996 and for many years was the sexual
1:23.6	assault liaison between the center and the university police, county law enforcement
1:29.2	and other agencies.
1:30.8	So students who have been sexually assaulted were referred directly to her for immediate
1:35.1	help in ongoing therapy.
1:37.7	On a religious note, she has also served two LDS missions, one to Taiwan at the normal
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