I can see that the regular posters here are hostile towards treatment centers, and I know that you have good reasons for your strong feelings. I feel I must say that I don't advocate sending your teenager anywhere because of teenage rebellion and wild behavior, but when your daughter is going to kill herself any minute, or is so disturbed by things that may have happened to her that she cannot function, and you, as a parent, are looking for help and healing for your daughter and your family...there are, indeed, reputable places staffed by ethical and skilled people that can help. New Haven is one of those places and I simply say that, should you be a parent in that situation, you should check it out for yourself. Research it, investigate it, visit it and decide for yourself.
hi new haven. I am a survivor of some of the homes discussed on this board. The rtc.s i was in have been open for 50 years, very expensive, highly regarded, and practice round the clock torture of their detainees.
You will not find out anything by visiting the institution as my parents visited my institution and saw nothing alarming. These places are cults, and like scientology, they know how to hide the bodies.
Torturing a kid, well anyone, will lead them to bond with their torturer. This truism is the basis of the interrogation process of suspected "terrorists" in Guantanamo Bay and Abu garhib. Cumulative torture, isolation, and psychological, terror, induction of shame and guilt.
At this point I don't even care anymore, but if you really are a mother and don't want to kill your kid. get her out. apologize. get her a lawyer through which she can empower herself, and stop murdering her.
When i would speak to my parents from the private prison, i would tell them how much i loved them and how much i had learned from this experience. I was brainwashed. Just like Elizabeth smart was brainwashed into telling investigating police that she was her abductors wife and she loved him.
If you think being a member of natsap means something good you should investigate the programs that are on natsap. then match up how many are on caica's, heal's and isac's list of very abusive programs. The most horrifying program ever Elan, which literally beats kids to DEATH and calls the beating therapy is listed. Watch the gao hearing with the spokeman for natsap who admitted her org did nothing, not protect kids or enforce it's guidelines, or even keep lists of the times its members self reported breaking its guidelines, or even set clear guidelines. NATSAPS official poisition was to challenge a fed act tht would make it ilegal to abuse kids, or hold them indefinitely without access to due process, or agencies that prevent abuse.
if u r a real parent, which i doubt, think about what is being told to you. What’s important isn’t feeling your kid is safe, or trusting in the program, but what your kid has to deal with now that they've been abducted, imprisoned, & are dealing with what REALLY is done to you when youre locked up, away from watchful eyes.
