Editing Religious trauma syndrome (section)

=== Tasks of recovery ===
Healing from religious trauma involves assessing each symptom area for growth and exploration:

*Cognitive tasks:
** developing [[critical thinking]] skills 
** providing psychoeducation about RTS 
** offering [[decision-making]] frameworks 
** fostering good mental hygiene (e.g. avoiding [[black and white thinking]] or judgmentalism)
** re-establishing a sense of [[personal identity]]<ref name="Winell BABCP 3" />
*Affective tasks:
** exploring coping skills for [[emotional dysregulation]]
** habitual steps for dealing with emotional [[Flashback (psychology)|flashbacks]].<ref name=":7" />
*Functional tasks:
** establishing healthy sleeping and eating patterns
** providing [[sex education]] in an effort to promote healthy sexuality 
** reconnecting with the body through [[Somatics|somatic]] techniques.<ref name=":11" />
*Social/cultural tasks:
** discovering and/or establishing a community or social network outside of the controlling faith community.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=A |title=Healing Together: The Role of Community Support in Overcoming Religious Trauma |publisher=Harmony Press |year=2021}}</ref>
** cultivating financial stability 
** learning how to acculturate into society
** developing interpersonal skills such as [[perspective-taking]].<ref name=":10" />

Many developmental tasks overlap with cognitive, affective, functional, and social/cultural tasks. Developmental tasks of recovery focus on recognizing developmental delay and providing necessary education in critical thinking, sexual health, mental hygiene, and socialization to allow natural human development to continue.<ref name="Winell BABCP 3" />