AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Steve Cannane and Sashka Koloff
Updated Fri Aug 9, 2013
A psychologist who advised the Catholic Church committee that deals with sexual abuse says the church’s insurance company dictated how victims should be treated under the Towards Healing protocol.
Dr Robert Grant is a US-based psychologist who specialises in abuse and trauma, has worked with the Catholic Church on sexual abuse issues in seven countries, and has written a number of books on clerical abuse.
In the late 1990s he was living in Sydney and advising the St John of God brothers in relation to the psychiatric facilities they ran.
He was soon asked to help the National Committee for Professional Standards, which was working on the draft of Towards Healing, the church policy for dealing with clerical sexual abuse.
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