I haven't done a deep investigation of Keystone, they don't pay me to recommend them, and I'm not offering this as a specific recommdation for care. I offer this simply as an example.
Program Parents ask all the time, when they try to discredit critics of the teen behavior modification facility industry, "So are you claiming there aren't any good programs out there? Name something you consider a good program."
Okay.
There is good rehab out there. There is quality inpatient treatment out there for the situations in which it becomes necessary.
The following place is an example of what quality rehab for teens looks like:
http://www.keystonetreatment.com/specialty.phpThis place is an example of a rehab facility which passes the "sniff test" and the bullshit detectors.
1) It provides treatment for the full spectrum of life--not just adolescents, not just college-age adults, but middle-aged adults as well.
2) It has separate tracks for separate addictions and problems---note especially the dual-diagnosis track for patients with addictions plus psychiatric problems.
3) Its assessment checklists for parents are
realistic instead of catch-all, when realistically applied by the parents. Specifically, for some symptoms that could otherwise be catch-alls, they provide examples of normal behavior of non-addicted teens.
4) It provides, up front, information about realistic ways parents can avoid encouraging addiction at home--accepting the "risk" that parents will cope with their own problem instead of filling a bed at the facility.
5) It specifically decries alarmism about drugs and risks in its "what not to do" section for parents, as counter-productive. No deadinsaneorinjail rhetoric there.
6) It quotes a treatment success rate in line with adult rehabs that track
their success rates. I'd bet that if asked, they'd be willing to tell parents exactly how they got those numbers, and that their methods of getting success rate statistics for their adolescents would match their methods of getting them for adults. If seriously investigating a specific rehab center for a specific patient, that would be a good question to ask.
7) Look at what you get when you google "keystone survivors" versus when you google the same for (examples, not a comprehensive list): Swift River, Provo Canyon, Tranquility Bay, Carolina Springs, "Three Springs." Big Difference.
Another good question to ask is about patient/therapist confidentiality. A quality facility will not push a patient to disclose personal information in group that the patient is not comfortable disclosing. No ethical therapist will breach patient/therapist confidentiality even for the parents except for legally required things like "Duty to Warn" or child abuse reporting requirements. As an example, that's a question I asked of my daughter's therapist right off while I was still deciding if she'd work out---I asked her policy on confidentiality, and she told me she wouldn't breach it even for the parents. Our daughter likes her, everything else checked out, so
sold!This is what a responsible parent looks for in
quality rehab.
Julie Cochrane[/i]
