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Saint Luke Institute (SLI) is a private, licensed mental health treatment facility located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Institute primarily serves Roman Catholic priests and religious women and men. Services are provided in both residential and outpatient settings. The Institute also conducts education and research programs related to the mental and spiritual wellness of clergy and religious.
Programs and Services
Saint Luke Institute offers a range of education and treatment services for Catholic religious, including the following:
- Evaluation Service service to assess each patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs. The process takes one week.
- Residential Program for Men to address critical needs in a healing, Catholic environment. It is a holistic program that addresses mind, body and spirit. Most clients take about six months to complete the program.
- Talitha-Life Program , designed by and for women, to meet the unique needs of Catholic religious sisters. Again, it lasts about six months.
- Halfway House Program for those clients who need more therapeutic time after the residential program in a step-down setting or for those who are transitioning out of ministry.
- Spirituality Program to renew the spiritual life of the priests and religious who come for treatment; includes Catholic Mass, regular retreats, an outside confessor, spiritual assessments, prayer sessions, and spiritual direction.
- Continuing Care Program to help former residents after they return to their diocese or religious community. There is a signed contract between the therapist and the client which outlines their on-going program, typically lasting two to five years.
- Outpatient Program to support women and men religious in the Washington/Arlington/Baltimore Archdioceses struggling with a range of psychological, spiritual and emotional needs. Laity are welcome in the outpatient program, as well as religious.
- Consultation service to assist bishops, provincials and other church leaders in supporting wellness among clergy and religious, including when and how to intervene.
- Candidate assessment to assist seminaries and other religious communities.
- Education and Prevention Services , including workshops, seminars and custom-made programs, to promote the health and wellness of Catholic clergy and religious.
Affiliate – St. Luke’s Centre, England
The St. Luke’s Centre (SLC) is an independent, sister organization located in Manchester, England, that supports the health and well-being of Catholic clergy and religious throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. The Centre was formed at the request of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, developed by Saint Luke Institute leadership in cooperation with Catholic leadership in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and operates in close association with Saint Luke Institute.
The centre provides outpatient psychotherapy and spiritual direction, week-long clinical assessments for priests and religious in psychological difficulty, educational and consultation services, and a continuing care program for those who have completed a residential program elsewhere. After a clinical assessment, if residential treatment is indicated, referrals are usually made to Saint Luke Institute in Maryland, U.S. One of SLC’s main functions is to perform candidate assessments for aspirants to the priesthood or religious life. A considerable number of dioceses in England, for example, use SLC to screen its candidates for the priesthood.
St. Luke’s Centre is a registered charity, with its own board of Trustees. It operates in compliance with national and international standards for specialized risk assessment and other psychological assessments.
History
Saint Luke Institute was founded in 1977 by Reverend Michael Peterson, M.D., a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington. Peterson, who trained as a psychiatrist at the University of California San Francisco before entering the priesthood, sought to bring advances in mental health treatment to priests, particularly those with substance abuse issues.
Initially, the Institute was a collaborative effort with the Marsalin Institute in Holliston, Massachusetts, which was headed by Father Jerome Hayden, also a priest psychiatrist. When Hayden died in 1977, Peterson became the leader of both organizations although the organizations remained separate legal and clinical entities. The Marsalin Institute facility was converted from a home for emotionally disturbed boys to a treatment facility for alcoholic clergy. Eventually the Holliston, MA location was closed leaving the one program in Suitland, Maryland.
Saint Luke Institute, like the Marsalin Institute before it, emphasized the importance of holistic care that addressed the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of its clients. In 1981, Saint Luke Institute began its residential program for men in Suitland, Maryland, primarily addressing the addictions of alcoholic clergy. A few years later, Institute services expanded to address mental health issues that frequently occurred alongside substance abuse. Based on his work at the Institute, Peterson became convinced that child sexual abuse among Catholic clergy was a serious and urgent issue. The Institute expanded its program to include the treatment of child sexual abuse and sexual compulsivity.
In April, 1987, Peterson died from complications related to AIDS. His death understandably created some controversy. However, under the strong leadership of Cardinal James Hickey, the Archbishop of Washington and Chair of the Board of Saint Luke Institute, the Institute was able to continue its mission.
Peterson was succeeded by Msgr. Robert E. Bacher, who had served as Executive Secretary of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Priestly Formation. Under Bacher’s leadership, the Institute continued the expansion of its capabilities beyond substance abuse and sexual disorders. The Institute’s holistic care was brought to those suffering from depression, anxiety, compulsive behaviors including gambling, overeating and other personality disorders.
In 1992, Father Canice Connors was appointed as the third president of Saint Luke Institute. Connors, a Franciscan (OFM Conv.) psychologist was the former president of Southdown, a psychological treatment center for religious founded near Toronto, Canada, in 1965. Connors oversaw the continuing growth of Saint Luke Institute, including its move to its larger, current facility in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1996.
Connors’ tenure in the early 1990’s coincided with increased surfacing of accusations of child sexual abuse against some priests in the U.S. Several of these men were assessed or received treatment at Saint Luke Institute (see Criticism and Controversy section below). Connors became a leader in national efforts to bridge communications between the Church hierarchy and victims of abuse. This included chairing a 1993 “think tank” for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on sexual abuse. Connors’ eventual successor, Father Stephen J. Rossetti, was a member of the think tank, which produced Recommendations of the “Think Tank” on Child Sexual Abuse, published by the USCCB’s Secretariat for Priestly Life and Ministry, later that year. They said, “We are concerned that the hierarchy’s authority and credibility in the United States is eroding because of a perceived inability to deal more effectively with the problem of child sexual abuse…We urge the bishops to respond to this tragedy decisively, pastorally, and immediately.” Many of the recommendations were eventually adopted after the 2002 sexual abuse crisis erupted.
From 1996 to 2009, Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti served as president of Saint Luke Institute. Rossetti first began working at the Institute in 1993. He soon assumed additional responsibilities as the Institute’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Rossetti continued to expand the role of Catholic spirituality in the Institute (which began under his predecessor Fr. Connors) and to strengthen its Catholic identity. In collaboration with the Archbishop of Washington, Rossetti began the policy of periodically requesting an Archdiocesan Visitation in which clerical and psychiatric experts appointed by the Archdiocese inspect the Institute for its compliance with Catholic theological and moral values. Visitation reports have strongly praised the work of the Institute. For example, the 2003 report said: “In sum, it is our conclusion that Saint Luke Institute is a fully Catholic institution based on Catholic teaching and authentic spiritual and theological pri
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