{"id":8051,"date":"2011-10-03T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:56:45","slug":"wheaton-regent-researchers-therapy-successful-for-homosexuals-wanting-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/10\/wheaton-regent-researchers-therapy-successful-for-homosexuals-wanting-to-change","title":{"rendered":"Wheaton, Regent researchers: Therapy successful for homosexuals wanting to change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Therapy can assist a homosexual who wants to be heterosexual, according to a study published in the\u00a0Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Psychologists Stanton L. Jones of Wheaton College and Mark A. Yarhouse of Regent University are the authors of the longitudinal study. It\u00a0tracked individuals\u00a0who were seeking to change their\u00a0sexual orientation — and documents their successful\u00a0transformations through involvement in a variety of Christian ministries.<\/p>\n

“The authors note that the study overcomes a primary criticism of same-sex attraction therapy data — that the results are not adequately documented over a period of time – -by assessing its 98 candidates over a period of six to seven years after therapy concluded,” writes Kathleen Gilbert of LifeSiteNews:<\/a><\/p>\n

Jones and Yarhouse\u2019s results show the majority of candidates were successful in their goal of changing sexual orientation. Dr. Jones told LifeSiteNews.com that the study was likely skewed toward optimism towards therapy, as it wasn\u2019t able to count candidates who dropped out early. However, he said, the study still stands out from the crowd for its value as a long-term assessment of the viability of same-sex attraction therapy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018silver standard\u2019 [of SSA therapy studies] is a longitudinal study that follows people repeatedly over multiple years and also a prospective study that assesses people from the beginning of change. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first such study,\u201d wrote Jones. \u201cThe \u2018gold standard\u2019 would be a completely experimental and longitudinal study that would also randomly assign participants to different treatment groups with highly defined treatments; we believe such study would actually be impossible to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the American Psychological Association discourages mental health professionals from offering sexual reorientation therapy, the group\u2019s official position on such therapy states that there is \u201cinsufficient evidence\u201d to either approve or discredit the practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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