Christopher Columbus of Cults

[ajax13]

http://www.aarc.ab.ca/images/media/befo ... efroma.pdf

Where to start?  This article calls the AARC program "the only one of its's kind in North America."  Except for Straight, Kids, Kids Helping Kids, Pathways, Life and the other TCs, some closed down, some waiting to be closed.

http://www.aarc.ab.ca/fundraising/Novem ... letter.pdf

"Yesterday
AARC was created as a community response to growing recognition of the need for a Calgary based intensive treatment program for chemically dependent adolescents. A powerful combination of concerned parents, members of Calgary‟s Downtown Rotary Club, and the Provincial Government established AARC in the early 1990‟s. Dr. F. Dean Vause was hired to develop a clinical model that could reach these severely addicted youth. He had set out to find a solution to the dark disease after losing 3 students to drugs and alcohol in a high school, where he was a counsellor. His doctoral thesis was the development of a therapeutic process and recovery centre for chemically dependant youth and their families ~ a blueprint for AARC"

In 1998 Dean-o was the "founder of AARC".  In 2006 AARC turned out to have been founded by members of the Downtown Rotary Club, concerend parents, and the Provincial Government.  Vause did not write a thesis.  He submitted something called a "Project Demonstrating Excellence"  to the Union Institutee.
"F Dean Vause PhD 1994  The Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre: A Treatment Centre for Chemical Dependent Youth and Their Families"
http://www.tui.edu/directories/default.asp?
sortcol=focus&printme=1&dirCat=PDE

AARC opened in 1992.  Vause got his PhD in 1994.  Apparently he wrote up a blueprint after he opened AARC.  As a rule, one follows plans to construct something, rather than drawing up a "blueprint" after construction.  But then again, all he had prior to opening AARC was a year or so as an underling in Miller Newton's cult.  

"MR. NELSON: Mr. Speaker, AADAC has been involved with assistance in developing the program of the Alberta > since its
inception originally as Kids of the Canadian West."

http://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.asp ... =doc&fid=1

[Anonymous]

Yes that would be quite the feat to run a treatment center for a few years prior to developing the model on running said treatment center.

Doesn't a PhD. require a considerable amount of work that would be difficult to accomplish while being the executive director of a drug treatment center?

[ajax13]

Well, in defensive of the great dodgeball master, he wasn't Executive Director the whole time.  If we believe AARC, the Wiz worked on his Project for four years.  So he was researching his PhD while he bounced between NJ, Vancouver, and Calgary, conducting his basement exorcisms and founding AARC.  Lucky for the Wiz he was enrolled at the Union Institute, and not a school like the University of Calgary, where a PhD candidate must complete a 1600 hour predoctoral clinical internship.  Unless time spent in Miller Newton's cult was a clinical internship.  Depending on the day though, Dean-o may claim AARC was started in 1990, or '92.  It's 1990 if the main concern is to convey his experience, '92 if he's trying to hide the fact that AARC is Kids.

[Anonymous]

Whats this?

http://www.tui.edu/history/acc.asp

[ajax13]

Whats this?

Does it have anything to do with this?  Here's good ol' Union:

"Criteria
The admissions criteria, in order of priority, are the following.

1) Intellectual/analytical ability and academic preparation as demonstrated through transcripts, letters of recommendation, application essay, and telephone interview.


2) Openness to and interest in doctoral research and advanced learning--or, stated differently, the absence of a dogmatic or closed or fixed point of view.


3) Reasonable fit within the three areas of concentration.


4) Related considerations such as a personal/professional schedule that makes it possible for an applicant to participate fully in the low-residency format, ability to work with others, and similar factors."

Here's the University of Calgary:

"Entrance Requirements
Entrance requirements for admission into the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program:

a four-year undergraduate honours degree in Psychology;
a minimum GPA of 3.6 over the last 20 half courses completed;
Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test scores. The minimum criteria set is the 50th percentile in each the Verbal and Quantitative dimensions, although, applicants with scores less than the 60th percentile will not typically be admitted;
applicants whose background language is not English must take either the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and achieve a score greater than 600 (written test) or 250 (computer-based test), or successfully complete Level III of the Learning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) Program"

[ajax13]

Here's more from Union:
"School of Professional Psychology Training

SOPP offers online courses each semester. They are not required, but are an option for completing new learning in the various areas within clinical psychology. SOPP online courses include such topics as experimental research design & statistics; biological bases of behavior; psychopathology; and forensic psychology.

SOPP Professional Psychology Workshops (Pro Workshops) are 3-day residency events, offered Sunday through Tuesday. They are held three times a year in Cincinnati, Ohio in January, April, and October following national faculty meetings.  If you matriculate on or after October 1, 2002, you’re required to participate in two of these each year.  Content includes presentations (approximately 1.5 hours each) by both faculty and learners, on topics such as the new HIPPA guidelines, Gestalt Psychotherapy, and new developments in treatment modalities specific to various clinical populations.  Also included are sessions about the Learning Agreement, the structure of the Project Demonstrating Excellence (Dissertation), and various research methods."

University of Calgary:
" PhD I  
Breadth Course
Elective Course
Specialty Practicum
Advanced Clinical Seminar

PhD II
 Advanced Clinical Seminar
Specialty Practicum
Dissertation Research


PhD III
Pre-Doctoral Clinical Internship

Completion of Ph.D. degree

Students must take breadth courses in four areas, as stipulated by CPA and APA accreditation criteria."

The Union institute offers some optional online courses and requires two three-day workshops per year.  University of Calgary requires two years of course work.

[Anonymous]

http://www.aarc.ab.ca/images/media/before/rescuefroma.pdf

Where to start?  This article calls the AARC program "the only one of its's kind in North America."  Except for Straight, Kids, Kids Helping Kids, Pathways, Life and the other TCs, some closed down, some waiting to be closed.

http://www.aarc.ab.ca/fundraising/Novem ... letter.pdf

"Yesterday
AARC was created as a community response to growing recognition of the need for a Calgary based intensive treatment program for chemically dependent adolescents. A powerful combination of concerned parents, members of Calgary‟s Downtown Rotary Club, and the Provincial Government established AARC in the early 1990‟s. Dr. F. Dean Vause was hired to develop a clinical model that could reach these severely addicted youth. He had set out to find a solution to the dark disease after losing 3 students to drugs and alcohol in a high school, where he was a counsellor. His doctoral thesis was the development of a therapeutic process and recovery centre for chemically dependant youth and their families ~ a blueprint for AARC"
 

VERY interesting newsletter with a physician extolling the value of AARC and AARC methods. so, AJaX you provided a link to a DOCTOR's opinion of AARC . . .hmmmm seems very positive to me. You keep ranting that Vause does not have a medical license but then you provide the testimony of a person WITH a medical license that praises the work done at AARC

[ajax13]

The physician in question is an AARC parent.  This person chose to reject the entire body of medical understanding and practise, sending her offspring to receive the ministrations of a phys ed teacher in order to remedy an alleged dependence on marijuana.  
Secondly, the person in question managed to raise a child who was resorting to cannabis use in the seventh grade.
Perhaps you might find a physician's opinion from a physician who is not affiliated with AARC, or in the business of consulting on behalf of private drug treatment programs.  This precludes Stanhope, Goresky, Hogg, Ray Baker, etc.

[Anonymous]

The physician in question is an AARC parent.  This person chose to reject the entire body of medical understanding and practise, sending her offspring to receive the ministrations of a phys ed teacher in order to remedy an alleged dependence on marijuana.  
Secondly, the person in question managed to raise a child who was resorting to cannabis use in the seventh grade.
Perhaps you might find a physician's opinion from a physician who is not affiliated with AARC, or in the business of consulting on behalf of private drug treatment programs.  This precludes Stanhope, Goresky, Hogg, Ray Baker, etc.

oh really  LOL. NOw being a trained medical doctor is not good enough for  Ajax  BECAUSE her son is an addict  - R U freaking kidding me . .  AND you? KNOW the entire "body of medical understanding and practise" in the area of addictions - you didn't even know who Michael Q Patton was!!!   LOL  only one of the most internationally reknowned treatment outcome evaluation  experts there is  . . but no matter - only what serves AJax's view of reality is ok to AJAX . . . . you wonder why media , police or politician will listen to you!!!   if they could just link your reality to the REAL world then you might hit a home run there, buddy!

[ajax13]

As requested previously, find a physician's analysis of AARC from someone who isn't an AARC parent, AARC board member, or consultant to private treatment facilities.  And by the way, I certainly do question a physician parent whose 11 year old develops a dependence on marijuana.  As to Patton, not an MD.  And a faculty member from the Union Institute, a mail-order school that has provided at least two AARC staff with degrees, provided Miller Newton with his degrees, and took money from AARC charitable funds.  Additionally, Patton's school has provided numerous people to endorse AARC, as they did Kids.

[Anonymous]

As requested previously, find a physician's analysis of AARC from someone who isn't an AARC parent, AARC board member, or consultant to private treatment facilities.  And by the way, I certainly do question a physician parent whose 11 year old develops a dependence on marijuana.  As to Patton, not an MD.  And a faculty member from the Union Institute, a mail-order school that has provided at least two AARC staff with degrees, provided Miller Newton with his degrees, and took money from AARC charitable funds.  Additionally, Patton's school has provided numerous people to endorse AARC, as they did Kids.

I think I would go with the person who is a trained professional i.e. MD especially a d family phsyician who has actually attended AARC and knows first-hand if the process is questionable over very sick kids who end up in front of juvenile court judges!!  but AJAX your world is definitely different than mine . . .  and I am truly blessed for that!  for instance you chose AS AN ADULT to get involved with a woman that you repeatedly describe has very alarming probelms, which started before even going to AARC.

[ajax13]

So you're saying that these unlicensed amateurs, the Wiz, the Clinicals, and Peer Counselors included, are performing a medical intervention of some kind at AARC?  Does this then constitute performing a Restricted Activity?  If it does, then they are breaking the law since none of these people is legally permitted to perform such Restricted Activity.
I am in total agreement with you that having been held against one's will in a religious facility run by a phys ed teacher posing as a psychologist could cause real problems to a young person.  Likewise being subjected to the bizarre rituals supervised by the Peer Counselors and given to the Oldcomer in host homes.  No question, the entire experience at AARC can cause an array of problems for young people forced into the program.

[Anonymous]

So you're saying that these unlicensed amateurs, the Wiz, the Clinicals, and Peer Counselors included, are performing a medical intervention of some kind at AARC?  

huh . . can you read and comprehend english or not??

Does this then constitute performing a Restricted Activity?  If it does, then they are breaking the law since none of these people is legally permitted to perform such Restricted Activity.

huh again?

I am in total agreement with you that having been held against one's will in a religious facility run by a phys ed teacher posing as a psychologist could cause real problems to a young person.

and where did the respondent say those things? what was said was that they would listen to a MD over a person who was a juvenile delinquent . ..hmmm ....  listen to someone who has never been a juvenile delinquent and who has gone through medicine and is certified in family medicine VS listen to a confirmed juvenile deliquent and her sick BF that comes along 10 years later and has only been listening to juvenile delinquents' stories.  i'll go with the MD . . thanks

Likewise being subjected to the bizarre rituals supervised by the Peer Counselors and given to the Oldcomer in host homes.  No question, the entire experience at AARC can cause an array of problems for young people forced into the program.

again, a family physician that knows first-hand what the actual process was does not describe it like you do (you being a person taking 2nd-hand BS from a juvenile delinquent)

[ajax13]

Are you still referring to the family physician who managed to produce an 11 year-old-son who was dependent on marijuana?  Is this the same family physician who paid to have this son treated by a phys ed teacher through the use of prayer, confession, and listening to music?

[Anonymous]

Are you still referring to the family physician who managed to produce an 11 year-old-son who was dependent on marijuana?  Is this the same family physician who paid to have this son treated by a phys ed teacher through the use of prayer, confession, and listening to music?

what is the saying - don't argue with an idiot . . . they (ajax13) try to bring you down to their level so they can beat you with their experience (of being an idiot)!!!

Ok for fun and amusement - juvenile delinquent VS professional - which would you choose??   uhmmmm  . . .jeezz that is such a hard question f0r some people but . . .  I'll go with medical professional who is able to get articles published in peer reviewed periodicals .  . . kinda a no-brainer for some   BUT not so for AJAX13

treated by a phys ed teacher through the use of prayer, confession, and listening to music?

 . . . and that would be a technical description by a obsessed BF of a juvenile delinquent speaking.. uhm . . again, let me be clear . .  I would choose to listen to the medical professional and even if their kid got hooked on MJ  

PS I thought AARC was in the business of misdiagnosing kids with addiction . . now you are saying this parent's kid  was dependent on marijuana?  you need to make up your mind, buddy