now you are going back to my earlier list and providing different responses. Your new responses are completely inconsistent with what you said earlier- particularly your now claimning that kidsa are admitted without being diagnosed with dsm conditions.
Without going back to look at my previous responses, I believe I stated that as long as a therapist recommended the stay then it would be acceptable (TBS)
Then why are they there? And no I never would agree to sanction a facility that has kids brought by armed guards. There is no condition I know of for which the use of escorts as they exist and are marketed would not be contraindicated and no practice more likely to insure that the family will not reconcile.
I agree, if they are carrying weapons I wouldn’t want kids transported that way. Maybe we could rewrite the language.
Regarding wilderness- you are not that naive. Wilderness is marketed to frightened parents for a variety of dsm conditions? Aren't kids picked up by escort services and brought to wilderness who have been diagnosed with dsm conditions. Doesn't your industry claim to treat those conditions with wilderness? You can't reconcile that with the item on the list.
Good question, I am not sure of the diagnoses of kids in wilderness. I do know that many are under the care of a therapist.
Regarding the identification of facilities your answer continues to be preposterous. BUt if you insist I suggest that you do some research and if you can't find facilities that observe them you spend your time on the industry board's trying to convince them that the standrads are good ones before you add to the list of requirements. HOw can you defend an industry without being able to identify the practices at any of them?
How can you be against the entire industry without knowing the details of every program? I think our answers are the same, we look at the results of what the industry has produced. If I based my opinion on the what is written here on fornits I would probably agree with your assumptions. But I have seen the many kids who have benefited from TBS and wilderness so my conclusions are different than yours.
Your refusal to name the better facilities makes you a defender of the industry- an unregulated industry with no standards - and hence a tout for wwasp, sue scheff, the straight progeny and the Bundy's. That is why what you do here is so invidious.
Ha,Ha,Ha, you really like to heap it on.. you still have not been listening. I don’t possess the list that you want. As you gain more knowledge in the area of TBS and wilderness (and life in general) you will see that they all don’t fit a list of 10 items written by a random individual (no industry does). There are millions of people in the world and if every company tried to meet the needs of everyone they would all fail. No one has the magic answers that you want but it is good that you keep asking them, there is nothing wrong with that MIS.
Some schools may feel 1 week is long enough before a child calls home, others may feel 2,3,4 weeks is acceptable. You happen to have the opinion that 2 weeks is the limit and that is okay, but not everyone is going to agree with you and it doesn’t make them evil because they don’t and we cant expect them to change because you say so….. do you see what I am getting at? You don’t seem like a bad person but just a little naive on how businesses function. If you thought cars should have 10 airbags in them and they presently have 7 then it doesn’t make the whole industry evil. They based their decision on other factors, that’s all, you shouldn’t take it personally.
Good night - who!
I have to go now. Let me know when - to use the vernacular- known to the straight victims--you are ready to get honest. Until then you will remain in the first phase
I have been honest from the beginning, but I know that is hard for you to believe.
Have a good night, MIS
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