[My comments are in green; LINKS in purple. Emphasis with bold is mine.]

If you are a professional exit counselor who is working a case related to NCCG, you may wish to contact this site author for additional information/documentation that does not appear on the public site. Please note that due to the necessity of protecting the privacy of the individuals involved in my investigation, I will need to be able to do the following: (1) independently identify you as a professional exit counselor with an established reputation, and (2) verify that you are actually the person you represent yourself to be. I will be forced to turn down requests from exit counselors who, for whatever reason, cannot be verified this way.

[The word professional baffled me. Are exit counsellors “professionals”? This is what the "profession" means, according to the New Collins Concise English Dictionary: "An occupation requiring specdial training in the liberal arts or sciences, esp. one of the three learned professions, law, theology, or medicine." Professional does not mean therefore someone with established reputation who is asked to do a job and earns money from it. The Gestapo, in that sense, could also be "professionals".

Now as for nccg_concern, it looks like all he needs to trust a person is an established reputation. Ted Patrick, for instance, a person charged with sexual assaults and possession of drugs, is pretty famous, so why not ask this guy to help your daughter out of a “cult”?

I have a very negative opinion concerning exit counsellors – also known as deprogrammers. I do not agree with their practices and I regard them as violation of not only religious freedom but just about every freedom there is. I believe that their “profession” is but the fruit of deranged and emotionally deprived people who go after others to suck their blood in order for themselves to get a life. More on that and an extensive analysis is to be found in the relevant article of this webpage.

My intention is to make a list of links, to which I will be adding, concerning “exit counsellors” and “deprogrammers”.]

The Religious Movements Page (of the University of Virginia):

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/cultsect/anticounter.htm – An excellent and unbiased overview of the anti-cult and counter-cult movements.

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/cultsect/brainwashing.htm – Contains an overview and a series of interesting links about brainwashing.

CultAware Unzipped:

http://info_3.tripod.com/cultaware_unzipped/def.html - A definition of the terms “exit counselling” and “deprogramming”.

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_counseling

Quoting from this link: “Some critics see no difference between deprogramming and exit counseling or claim that exit counseling is just another name for deprogramming used after a number of legal problems with the latter, and that it includes at least emotional or intellectual coercion.”

Reason Online:

http://reason.com/opeds/walker042197.shtml

A critique about how “professional” deprogrammers are.

Religious Freedom Watch:

http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/false_exp/rossr1.html

and

http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/false_exp/RICK_ROSS_AND_THE_ROSS_INSTITUTE.PDF

Lengthy critique on Rick Ross and MANY documents, including information from courtroom trials, letters, a CV and a psychologist’s profile of Rick Ross’s character.

CESNUR (Centre for Studies on new Religions):

http://www.cesnur.org/conferences/BrainWash.htm – Article on brainwashing

http://www.cesnur.org/testi/gandow_eng.htm – Article on brainwashing

http://www.cesnur.org/testi/anticult_terror.htm – Article on anti-cult terrorism

http://www.cesnur.org/2001/london2001/barker.htm – Cult-hunters separated in categories and studied separately.

About CESNUR, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNUR

The Academic New CAN (Scientology-supported website):

http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/dbase/bios/rross.html – Opinions and facts about Rick Ross and his practices and a lot of links.

http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/dbase/bios/ross2.html – A case of SRA is considered as “ridiculous urban myths” by Rick Ross.

http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/violent-links.html – Interesting chart of how the former CAN was organised.

About CAN read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Awareness_Network

Rick Ross’s website:

http://www.rickross.com – This website contains an exhaustive list of cults and just about any other group that with a lot of imagination and many vague assumptions one could characterise as “cult”.

Rick Ross’s list of warning signs:

http://www.rickross.org/warningsigns.html – This list is more or less the criteria according to which Rick Ross is willing to kidnap and deprogram people. Exhaustive analysis of them is to be found in the relevant article of this website.

Websites opposing Rick Ross:

http://www.rrexposed.u2k.biz/index.htm

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/130-rick-ross

 

This is a website where distinction is made between truly professional experts and "experts" without any qualifications. A lot of information in there.

http://www.cultfaq.org/cultfaq-counseling.html

See also: http://www.cultfaq.org/ where that link came from.