umm first of all your blowing everything there way out of porportion. first of all, aarc dosnt tell anybody that they have no rights. Dr. Vause is not the all powerful head of everything, he has bosses in the organization that tell him what he can and cant do.
No they don't TELL them, they prove to the client beyond a doubt that they have no say in what happens to them in treatment.
Powerlessness is a concept you totally dont understand. It is not that you have to give your free will to aarc, it is that you cant control life, and the more you try to control it the more frustrating it becomes. The one thing you can control is your choices and your actions in life.
AARC actually claims to break a kids will, they say they tear them down and build them back up. Taking away the rights, power and control is their own claimed method. So what are you talking about?
Higher power is also a concept you dont understand. A higher power is not defined by aarc, in fact it is defined as God as you understand him. Whether your "god" is your grandmother, allah, or your 3rd grade science teacher. As long as you believe that this entity can help guide you in life, it is a higher power.
I've also seen parents' belief in their own "God" critisized, laughed at and watched the parents be humiliated over their beliefs.
AARC children can see their parents. And an aarc staff member dosnt have to be present. Just not in the first small bit of their treatment.
Small bit? 2 months and counting. What about the parents who aren't participating in the program? When do THEY get to see their kids?
And as for "getting out when the wiz says you get out" and all that stuff, it is the parents choice if they want to pull their kid out of treatment, and it is the kids choice if he/she is over 18. It is not like they are trapped there against their (or their parents') will.
Yeah except the parents are convinced their kids are going to DIE if they don't stay in treatment. The parents sit and listen to hours of lecture about how horrible, uncaring, unhealthy, mentally unfit _______ parent is who left/was terminated/decided AARC wasn't for them.
A court order stating "When released by the director" Yeah... kinda means released by the director. Even if it's the parents who got them on the court order in the first place. [/quote]
