If it is SGAT that is being done ,it is an effective means to enhance selling ability. It is especially good when the product your selling is shitty.
Cars and ligtbulbs are not distressed adolecscents. The proccess of therapy is considerably more complex. And incarcerated adolescents are among the toughest populations. You have individuals who are misdiagnosed and are mentally ill, individuals who are developing symtomology, sociopaths, and emotionally fragile kids. And then there are vendettas, scapegoats, premeditated pile ons.etc. A therapist who isn't careful can find two residents in a physical confrontation. Even good sound therapuetic technique need to be put into the context that you are dealing with an indivdual. So the
therapist has to be extremely alert and sensitive to the possible harm that the group proccess can entail. It is not a one size fits all.
I don't know what they do at Carlbrook. Apparantly nobody knows, or they are afraid to disclose it. I hope it is not regression therapy because that is extremely dangerous in this population. Idividuals exposeded to this can disasociate, or recover false memories, which disable ego funtioning. This retards their ability to discover who they are which is one of the primary task of adolesence.
"We have argued that while many participants experienced a sense of enhanced well-being as a consequence of the training, these experiences were essentially patholigical. First, ego funtions were systematically undermined and regression was promoted by environmental structuring, infantalizing of the participants and repeated emphasis on submission and surrender Second the ideation or interpretive framework provided in the training was also based upon regressive modes of reasoning-the use of all or nothing categories, absolutist logic and magical thinking, all of which are consistant with the egocentric thinking of you children. Third, the content of the training stimulated early narcissistic conflicts and defenses, which accounts for the elation and sense of heightened well-being achieved by the many participants. The devaluation of objective contraints upon a person's action promoted grandiose fantasies of unlimited power. A collary to this devaluation of the external world wits that interactions with others lacked substance. People appear to be interchangeable so that ephemeral, indiscriminate emotional contacts, were experienced as profound and meaningful. " This was written in Psychiatry "Pathology as Personal Growth."
I don't know what Carlbrooks workshops are like but I am skeptical of the great emotional catharthis these kids are
are feeling, and the potential discord when their world views collides with their home environment.
Regression therapy, rebirthing, and emotional cathartic therapy has no empirical validation and
no acceptance with the mainstream mental health establishment. Could that be a reason why those workshops, practices, excercises and procedures have no disclosure? Please Carlbrook make a contribution to all of us so we may understand just how you make people better.
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