Amazing Program Closures in 2011

With the year coming to an end, it's time to recap the nations progress in ending the controversial troubled teen industry. A good amount of schools have been closed an even properties sold to other private educators! And what's best is that there is a new revival of the failed treatment bill proposed in 2008 called the "Stop Child Abuse in Residential Treatment Programs for Teens Act of 2011! This is just one step closer to bringing the whole black market industry down since abusive practices is the only thing these programs operate on.

Schools closed this year were; Elan, Ridge Creek School, and even a WWASPS facility Mentor School. One amazing feat is a new christian boarding school has opened on the site of the closed Carolina Springs Academy, another WWASPS school closed in 2009.

Let's hope to see much more facilities shut down in 2012!

Why all boarding schools (theraputic or not) NEED Winter Break!

As many of you know, the unlawful troubled teen industry is year-round. You may be asking what the problem is with that. Well one of these problems is skipping out on Christmas Break and spending it away from their families in a strange place with the feelings that they have been abandoned.

Regardless of what this article says, the teens are even more safe at home and feel more comfortable spending Christmas time with their families. If they are neither mentally ill nor facing any criminal charges the family feel happier with them home for the holidays instead of with some residential treatment center that doesn't know them. Many teens have said that the time they were at these troubled teen programs was their "worst Christmas ever" because it was not like anything they were used to, and thus didn't get many gifts from family.

This is another reason why congress needs to ban these types of educational/therapeutic practices. And have educators enforce a policy where holiday breaks are mandatory for any school and program accreditation.

Therapeutic schools are NOT true specialty schools.

The two are often confusing and hard to distinguish and is put into the WRONG category since "special needs" is an umbrella term for all sorts of differences. This is where most parents end up sending their kids to the wrong school and placement. They search special schools instead of college prep and end up with the wrong schools they are looking for. Contrary to popular belief therapeutic boarding schools and specialty boarding schools are two different things. Most notably the WWASPS torture chambers disregard the terms regarding their namesake. (World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools)

Radio Interview with Boot Camp Survivors

One talk radio interview talks and shares about the traumatic near-death experiences at the now defunct Straight Inc. wilderness therapy. It also mentions that this type of torture therapy was aimed for both adults and teenagers. Here are their stories.

What's even more shocking is that this treatment was only outlawed for adults and yet those regulations do not apply to youth. Thus allowing them to be sent to these torture chambers by their parents for so-called tough love. When listening this, you should be appalled and disgusted by that fact that the younger the individual, the more vulnerable they are to neglect including disabled youth. These are issues to be brought not just to congress, but to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.N. to see if this rules as torture and cruel and unusual punishment defined by the constitution.

Aversion therapy used as a primary Treatment of Teens

People are wondering what makes the psychological treatment different in teenagers than the general population receives. The answer is aversion therapy (not the electric shocks seen at the Judge Rottenberg Center) but through use of manipulation and teasing to cause mental distress. Aversion therapy is the practice of using pain and discomfort to change ones behavior, in this case is psychological discomfort.

One of these leads to an investigation of a Troubled Teen Boot Camp outside of Pasadena California. Unlike most of the Southern U.S. California has strong regulation regarding adolescent and child psychotherapy. But what makes this different is there is a recording of a kid screaming and crying while being yelled at with a tire around his neck. The video was posted just a few months ago. This shows just how harsh the industry is. To tell you the truth, all facilities in the country should keep recordings at all time so that making a cover-up of abuse nearly impossible. Read More Here

Wait! don't be fooled by the site

Before sending your teen too these tough love programs, read the reviews. You could be sending them to a center that has a damaging environment and not even know it. They may look like a promising paradise to get your child back on track, but on the inside the program itself is dire. The methods they often use cause more harm than good.

In fact, there has been studies that show that they are ineffective on treating troubled teens. It may seem to be effective only briefly, but then the damage done is unraveled.
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Porpose of this Blog

This is for hope that those abusive facilities will get attention about their disturbing nature. These are the worst of the worst mental health programs in the nation. They often treat and discipline in the most unorthodox ways. Worst yet, these patients are children and teenagers.

This treatment is NOT allowed on the most dangerous criminals under terms of Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Some of the punishment used are mental torture, meal deprivation, denied medical care, denied proper shelter. In severe cases, some of these teens die as a result. And yet these places remain open as more and more kids are being sent to these programs. Even though some are violent and have faced charges, they deserve better than this.

These programs may sound like a promising place on their websites. But in reality, not even close. Looks can be deceiving.