Sandy Andron

Sandy Andron is an educational consultant. He was the director of a religious education high-school program in Miami, Florida, for twenty-five years. He sits on the Editorial Review Board of the academic journal: Cultic Studies Review. Andron received the Leo J. Ryan Award in 1988.

Andron created a high-school curriculum entitled: Cultivating Cult-Evading, which was published in 1983. Dr. Paul R. Martin cited the work in his 1993 book, Cult-Proofing Your Kids. The work is also referenced by the group Jews for Judaism. Andron has given seminars throughout the globe on the topic of "Cultivating Cult-Evading". Andron's article in G/C/T entitled: "Our Gifted Teens and the Cults" was cited by Hunter's article: "Adolescent Attraction to Cults", in the journal Adolescence.

Andron gave a lecture entitled "Magic and Mind Control", at the International Cultic Studies Association June 2006 conference in Denver, Colorado.

Publications

Books

• Cultivating Cult-Evading: A Teacher's Guide, 1983., Central Agency for Jewish Education

Articles

• Problem Solving An Approach for the Cult-Impacted Family, Dr. Sandy Andron, Ed.D., AFF News, Vol. 4, No. 1
• "Monkey on a Stick: [...], Madness, and the Hare Krishnas", (Book Review), The Cult Observer, 6(4), July/August, 1989, p. 18.
• "Our Gifted Teens and the Cults.", Sandy Andron, G/C/T, , n26 p32-33 Jan-Feb 1983
• "Gift Rapping: The Scavenger Hunt.", Sandy Andron, G/C/T, , n9 p34-35 Sep-Oct 1979

Presentations

• "Magic and Mind Control", ICSA Annual International Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 2006
• "Approaches to Exit Counseling: Part I", Discussants: Sandy Andron; Carol Giambalvo, AFF Conference, October 2004, Understanding Cults, New Religious Movements, and Other Groups
• "Anyone Can Be Fooled", Sandy Andron, Ed.D., June 14, 2002, AFF Conference, Orlando, Florida
• Cults, Psychological Manipulation & Society, Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1999

External links

• 2005 Profile, at Cultic Studies Review
• Guest commentator, on a CBS News story on The Children of God

See also

• List of cult and new religious movement researchers