Confronting the Reality of Abuse
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Presented by Rev Dr Fr Hans Zollner, President of the Institute of Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care at the Pontifical Gregorian University (former Centre for Child Protection) and professor of the Institute of Psychology.
Recorded on 13 February 2025
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Fr Zollner is a world-leading expert in safeguarding. Fr. Zollner, SJ, holds an S.T.D. and is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist and is a full professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Institute of Psychology and honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion of the University of Durham (England).
He has been the founding president of the Centre for Child Protection (est. 2012) at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Fr. Zollner, SJ, was chair of the organizing committees for the symposium “Towards Healing and Renewal” on sexual abuse of minors (February 2012) and for the world congress “Child Dignity in the Digital World” (2017); he was a member of the organizing committee for the summit on Child Protection in the Vatican (2019).
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