What is Happening Here?

[Anonymous]

The AARC program is based on the fundamental that chemical dependency is a disease. Adolescent substance abuse is defined as a psycho-social, genetic, chronic, progressive and relapsing disease affecting every dimension of the adolescent and their family members’ lives.

The AARC program provides progressive, structured stages of treatment from primary recovery through intermediate and advanced recovery.
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/the_AARC_program.html

ALBERTA REGULATION 251/2005

Health Professions Act

PSYCHOLOGISTS PROFESSION REGULATION



Restricted Activities

Authorized activities

12(1)  Regulated members registered on the general or courtesy register may, within the practice of psychology, perform the restricted activity of a psychosocial intervention with an expectation of treating a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behaviour, capacity to recognize reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.

(2)  Regulated members registered on the provisional register are authorized to perform the restricted activity set out in subsection (1) under the supervision of a regulated member authorized to perform the restricted activity.

[Anonymous]

To bad Dean (not Deane) is not a registered Chartered Psychologist.

[Anonymous]

The AARC program is based on the fundamental that chemical dependency is a disease.

Well, that's the first mistake and misrepresentation.  

The AARC program provides progressive, structured stages of treatment from primary recovery through intermediate and advanced recovery.

What in THE hell is that supposed to mean?  

ROFLMAO!!!!!

[TheWho]

To bad Dean (not Deane) is not a registered Chartered Psychologist.

Dont see what is too bad about it.  I am sure he is busy enough, as it is, running the place.

[Anonymous]

You guys really need to get your stories straight.  When we question Vause's credentials, one of your "defenses" is that he is not really in that much direct contact with kids and doesn't really "run" the place.  After all, he's hired qualified staff to do that, right?  He's not using virtual slave labor by utilizing "grads" as counselors, right?  The psychiatrist on staff has an initial visit with all patients and has at least SOME continuing care and working knowledge of their cases and treatment plans, right? (I refer you to "A Moms'" (mother of a recent inmate) posts which tell us pretty much the exact opposite.

Christ you people are sumpin' else.

[Anonymous]

Offence

4(1)  No person shall perform a restricted activity or a portion of it on or for another person unless

                                 (a)    the person performing it

                                           (i)    is a regulated member as defined in the Health Professions Act, and is authorized to perform it by the regulations under the Health Professions Act,

                                          (ii)    is authorized to perform it by a regulation under section 3,

                                       (ii.1)    is authorized to perform it by an order under section 3.1, or

                                         (iii)    is authorized to perform it by another enactment,

or

                                 (b)    the person performing it

                                           (i)    has the consent of, and is being supervised by, a regulated member described in clause (a)(i), and

                                          (ii)    is permitted to perform the restricted activity under a regulation made under section 131(1)(d)(i) of the Health Professions Act by the council of the college of the regulated member referred to in subclause (i),

and there are regulations made under section 131(1)(d)(ii) of the Health Professions Act by the council of the college of that regulated member respecting how regulated members must supervise persons who provide restricted activities under this clause.

(2)  Despite subsection (1), if no person who is authorized under subsection (1) is available to perform the restricted activity or a portion of it, a person may without expectation or hope of compensation or reward provide a restricted activity or a portion of it to provide physical comfort to or to stabilize another person who is ill, injured or unconscious as a result of an accident or other emergency.

(3)  No person, other than a person authorized to perform a restricted activity under subsection (1)(a), shall or shall purport to consent to, provide supervision of and control of, another person performing the restricted activity or a portion of a restricted activity.

(4)  No person shall require another person to perform a restricted activity or a portion of a restricted activity if that other person is not authorized in accordance with subsection (1) to perform it.

 

Penalty

5(1)  A person who contravenes section 4 is guilty of an offence and liable

                                 (a)    for a first offence, to a fine of not more than $5000,

                                 (b)    for a 2nd offence, to a fine of not more than $10 000, and

                                 (c)    for a 3rd and every subsequent offence, to a fine of not more than $25 000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than 6 months or to both fine and imprisonment.

(2)  A prosecution for an offence under this Schedule may not be commenced more than 2 years after the date on which the alleged offence occurs.

"F. Dean Vause Ph.D.
is executive director of the
Alberta Adolescent Recovery
Centre (AARC), a center in
Calgary, Alberta that reaches out
to teens with addiction issues.
Vause has developed the AARC
model and fills the additional
roles of clinical director and
front line therapist. He is also
actively involved in raising funds
for scholarships that will enable
select peer counselors from
AARC to enroll in Union
Institute & University's highly
specialized baccalaureate program
with a concentration in
alcohol and drug counseling and
treatment center management."
http://www.tui.edu/communique/UIU/older ... er2002.pdf

[Anonymous]

I see you can copy/paste out of Webster's.  Congratulations. What I'm asking you is how involved is Vause with the kids and their "treatment".  We keep hearing differing stories depending on what action or inaction you guys are attempting to defend.

Is Vause allowing people to mistakenly believe that he is, in any fashion, a member of the medical community?  I understand the difference between an MD and  PhD., what I'm asking is how prone to correcting this mistaken belief is he?  Newton was and still is notorious for letting misconceptions float on by.  People like Vause and Newton have a deep need to be seen as the ''answer guy''.  The one who knows all and is above question and reproach.  There is a clinical term for people like them. Malignant narcissists.

[Anonymous]

In Straight it was common practice for the group staff (basically graduates with zero clinical training to be doing the job they're doing) to be "overseen" by actual clinicians.  At least that was what they told the parents and HRS.  Of course, it was complete bullshit.   They told my parents that I was being seen regularly by a doctor.  Total bullshit.  Never once did I see any  medical professional during the two years I was incarcerated.

[Anonymous]

I see you can copy/paste out of Webster's.  Congratulations. What I'm asking you is how involved is Vause with the kids and their "treatment".  We keep hearing differing stories depending on what action or inaction you guys are attempting to defend.

Is Vause allowing people to mistakenly believe that he is, in any fashion, a member of the medical community?  I understand the difference between an MD and  PhD., what I'm asking is how prone to correcting this mistaken belief is he?  Newton was and still is notorious for letting misconceptions float on by.  People like Vause and Newton have a deep need to be seen as the ''answer guy''.  The one who knows all and is above question and reproach.  There is a clinical term for people like them. Malignant narcissists.

http://www.aarc.ab.ca/media/media_prior.html
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/images/media/2001 ... eshere.pdf
"F. Dean Vause Ph.D.
is executive director of the
Alberta Adolescent Recovery
Centre (AARC), a center in
Calgary, Alberta that reaches out
to teens with addiction issues.
Vause has developed the AARC
model and fills the additional
roles of clinical director and
front line therapist."

[Anonymous]

In other words, ya got no critical thoughts of your own and can't form a valid opinion other than what you've been given by AARC.  That's ok.....just admit it.  More copy/pasta.  More regurgitation of what AARC has shoved down your gullet.   How proud they must be of their accomplishment in you.


   

[Anonymous]

Schedule 7.1

Health Services Restricted Activities

Definitions

1   In this Schedule,
(g)    “restricted activity” means an activity named as a restricted activity in section 2;

Restricted activities

2(1)  The following, carried out in relation to or as part of providing a health service, are restricted activities:

(p)    to perform a psychosocial intervention with an expectation of treating a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or memory that grossly impairs

                                           (i)    judgment,

                                          (ii)    behaviour,

                                         (iii)    capacity to recognize reality, or

                                         (iv)    ability to meet the ordinary demands of life;
http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/Documents/acts/G10.CFM

"In AARC’s case, long-term treatment meets the needs of those adolescents where the negative consequences to their lives have progressed to the stage of chemical dependency and where returning to the home and/or the community is unrealistic."
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/AARCs_role_in_treatment.html
"Vause has developed the AARC
model and fills the additional
roles of clinical director and
front line therapist."
http://www.tui.edu/communique/UIU/older ... er2002.pdf

[Anonymous]

In other words, ya got no critical thoughts of your own and can't form a valid opinion other than what you've been given by AARC.  That's ok.....just admit it.  More copy/pasta.  More regurgitation of what AARC has shoved down your gullet.   How proud they must be of their accomplishment in you.