Did You Receive a Psychiatric Evaluation at HLA?

[RobertBruce]

Really?

What specifically am I making up?

[Troll Control]

I received this today from a currently employed HLA staffer.  Apparently, HLA will take anyone who can pay, regardless of diagnosis.  This unethical practice has led to the resignations of many staff members including Clarke Poole who worked in Admissions for six years.

" Clark Poole has just resigned from HLA. He was in the admissions dept for over 6 years and finally had all he could take. Here is his notice of resignation along with a series of emails that led to it. He sent this out to consultants after he resigned, and deleted the names of the students for privacy reasons, but everybody here knows who they are, and there are many more just like them. Buccellato will take in anybody who has the money. He is scum. Post it if you want to. Everybody here hates the damn place except those ass-kissers close to Buccellato. The favorite slogan among staff is Burn Baby Burn."

For all of us that have been telling the truth about HLA and being called liars (and worse) and threatened with violence and legal action, this one is for us.  The veil of secrecy has been shredded and I have the proof.  

For all of you who have disparaged me out of ignorance or intentionally to discredit me, this is your sharp stick in the eye.

[Anonymous]

Nicely done DJ, nicely done!  :nworthy:  :nworthy:  :nworthy:

For all of you who have disparaged me out of ignorance or intentionally to discredit me, this is your sharp stick in the eye

[Deborah]

That 'sharp stick in the eye' icon was too much. LOL!!

[Troll Control]

Without licensed staff on board, who is able to do any therapy sessions at HLA?  

What good is testing without treatment?

What good is treatment provided by unlicensed hacks?

[Troll Control]

On 2006-02-02 06:59:00, Dysfunction Junction wrote:

"I'm looking for anyone who has undergone a psychiatric evaluation at HLA.  



What tests were performed?  By whom?  What were the results?



Thanks.
"

Found one.

John Doe 1) came here with a very troubling history and equally troubling psychological evaluation. He was constantly involved in trouble including physical assaults on other students. He finally attacked and threatened to kill another student and the on-call clinical staff was called to evaluate him. She determined he was not only sincere but determined to actually try to kill the other student, and signed the order to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital. He did not return to Hidden Lake. The educational consultant who referred him to Hidden Lake was its owner, Len Buccellato.

It is no wonder why the good people of Dahlonega said "no" to another kiddie jail/psych hospital to be run by the HLA folks.

I think they're starting to get an idea of the severely disturbed "students" HLA imports into their quiet little town and the potential problems it poses when they are not properly cared for in the appropriate setting.

Are there any volunteers to collect the police reports/blotter incidents from HLA so that they can be posted?  It would be very interesting to see exactly how much time, effort and money the local PD puts out to deal with the problems HLA creates for the community.

I'll gladly pay for any transcripts or reports if someone will obtain them from the PD.

Thanks.

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"Compassion is the basis of morality."

-Arnold Schopenhauer[ This Message was edited by: Dysfunction Junction on 2006-04-17 05:57 ]

[juniper2]

I thought the police in Dahlonega didn't make reports when it comes to HLA?

[kid_thorazine]

Im jumping to this thread late but i thought id share my experiences with the Psych. Eval thing.

I was given a full psychiatric evaluation and testing (including the MMPI and all that) The results from that showed that I had very few problems (actually the only problem it said i had was mild to moderate chronic depression or something like that) However, either right before or right after i was admitted to HLA (my memory of this period of time is somewhat hazy) I was told that i was diagnosed by a certain Dr. Hunter at HLA with ODD, although i have never once in my life met this Dr. Hunter person.  Then after i was at HLA for awhile i requested to see a psychiatrist for another psych eval so i could possibly be medicated for my depression which was constantly getting worse, my mother also requested this, both of theese requests where frequently ignored.  I was only able to see another psychiatrist (Dr. Horowitz or Horwitz i believe) about a year latter when i complained of having chronic insomnia and ADD.  When i talked to the Dr he gave me a test for ADD and then told me that they wouldnt allow him to perscribe anything for my insomia out of fear that i may abuse it (although the school hadnt clasified me as an addict, so im assuming it was a blanket restriction for all students)  But he did perscribe me to adderall (Dextroamphetamine) which can just as easilly abused, i remmeber finding that quite odd.  That is about the extent of my experience with psychiatrists there I genneraly find the whole way they handled the psychiatric treatment to be HIGHLY unethical (although Dr. Horowitz did seem to actually care a great deal about my well being and seemed quite frustrated that he couldnt perscribe me anything to help me sleep.)

[Deborah]

Jump in anywhere. These threads are ongoing discussions.
There are non addicting sleep aids. Any reason they might not 'want' you to sleep? Being well rested might interfere with you 'working your program'. Isn't the point to put the kids under as much stress as possible (bait) so they 'react' and then can be punished?
Now that you're out, do you still consider yourself ADD and take meds?
ODD is the standard dx to get most in the door. Zyberkant and/or Witherspoon dx'd my son on the spot- they claimed "based on his father's complaints". No prior dx or eval.
What happened to those too anyway? Anyone know? And M. Burns? What happened to her?

[Exterior]

On 2006-04-27 17:14:00, Deborah wrote:


Jump in anywhere. These threads are ongoing discussions.

There are non addicting sleep aids. Any reason they might not 'want' you to sleep? Being well rested might interfere with you 'working your program'. Isn't the point to put the kids under as much stress as possible (bait) so they 'react' and then can be punished?

Now that you're out, do you still consider yourself ADD and take meds?

ODD is the standard dx to get most in the door. Zyberkant and/or Witherspoon dx'd my son on the spot- they claimed "based on his father's complaints". No prior dx or eval.

What happened to those too anyway? Anyone know? And M. Burns? What happened to her?"

Arnold Zilberkant was unceremoniously fired one day after working there for 10 years. You probably will disagree but I found him to be one of the 2 or 3 professional, caring people who worked at HLA (my kid was there for over 2 years.)

Witherspoon, a miserable, manipulative creep (in my opinion) "left" of his own volition - or so I'm told.

[kid_thorazine]

On 2006-04-27 17:14:00, Deborah wrote:

"

Jump in anywhere. These threads are ongoing discussions.

There are non addicting sleep aids. Any reason they might not 'want' you to sleep? Being well rested might interfere with you 'working your program'. Isn't the point to put the kids under as much stress as possible (bait) so they 'react' and then can be punished?

Now that you're out, do you still consider yourself ADD and take meds?

ODD is the standard dx to get most in the door. Zyberkant and/or Witherspoon dx'd my son on the spot- they claimed "based on his father's complaints". No prior dx or eval.

What happened to those too anyway? Anyone know? And M. Burns? What happened to her?"

Yeah i did think about that and i could be true but i dont want to make accusations that i cant back up 100%.
And yes i still have ADHD and im still on adderall, which actually does help me a great deal, and thats probably the one good thing i got out of that place.


And wow i wonder why Arnold got fired, i dont remmeber liking him to much but did at least seem very professional and well mannered unlike Mr. Witherspoon.

[Lacey]

Wow, Arnold and Mike are gone? And Bill Gray, and now Clarke Poole? It seems that most of the higher-ups from my time are gone... That is strange.

Anyway. Like Thorazine here, I too was given the MMPI test, and also an IQ test. However the timing was a bit off. It was in April of 2004, when i graduated in June. I found out in the weeks following, that all it was for was to try and convince my parents to keep me post-grad, and keep the cash from my wealthy father flowing, and to keep him baited. I was then involved in a court case (custody) and those results were used to prove to the court that I needed to stay in treatment (this is now me at 17, after I had been in treatment consistantly since i was 14). However all the school reported to the court was that I was "still hiding things."

But sure, thats grounds to keep me another 4 months until I went to college, right? Sounds like it to me.

[kid_thorazine]

yeah they tend to try and pull crap like that, I think they even treid to keep me post-grad even though i was like a model student.  Actually i was given all of the actuall testing before i went to HLA and my Psychiatrist even said that i didnt belong in that kind of treatemt, they might have listened had my ed con (Rose Lucas who as far as i know has no psychological backround whatsoever, although i could be wrong) told my ded that i would be dead within a year if i didnt go to HLA.

[Deborah]

On 2006-04-27 19:35:00, kid_thorazine wrote:

"they might have listened had my ed con (Rose Lucas who as far as i know has no psychological backround whatsoever, although i could be wrong) told my ded that i would be dead within a year if i didnt go to HLA.  "

The 'manipulation meter' is going haywire. Why would your parents take the opion of an Ed Con over a shrink?
In my case, the Ed Con never met my son, and didn't know a thing about him or HLA. Just provided the contact info over the phone. There was nothing to sell though, he had made the decision and just needed a referral, quick.

[ap47]

ummm arnold zilbercant or w/e his name was is part of a handful of manipulative staff. i find it very wierd how many of the top staff have either left or gotten fired, must be some REALLY SHADY BUSINESS going on behind the scenes, cuz that makes absolutely no sense.i think buccellato needs to have a psychiological evaluation, no joke.