Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Facility Question and Answers
boys/girls town?
firstresponder:
does any one have any info on this one? its in my local area and i have gone there a few times just to look around but i cant find much info on it.
Oscar:
It is a difficult question to reply on. There are no standard how they are run.
Each community can create their own program if they want to cut down on the population in the juvies. I found a newspaper article when I looked for info in the local neighborhood of a wwasp jail in Nevada.
As you can see they run non-residential programs, which allows non-voilent offers to remain in their home instead of having the cost to house them in a juvie. Still the day is rather structured to keep them from hanging in the street. I hope that such day-treatment will be used because while we are fighting RTC, the law has to be upheld.
I also found a link to a system in Nebreska with a number of different programs.
firstresponder:
thanks for that.
this looks somewhat interesting, http://http://www.boystownhomecampus.org/AboutUs/Pages/IntensiveResidentialTreatmentServices.aspx
anythinganyone:
--- Quote ---The Intensive Residential Treatment Center is a long-term, 24-hour residential treatment program for youth ages 7 to 18 with psychiatric disorders.
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Why does it stop at eighteen?
--- Quote ---The residential program is specifically designed to offer medically directed care for more seriously troubled youth who require supervision, safety and therapy but do not require inpatient psychiatric care.
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Exactly what sort of stage or severity is needing to be locked into a residental place for psychiatric disorders while not needing inpatient psychiatric care?
--- Quote ---The Center provides round-the-clock supervision, locked/secure facilities and numerous other safety and program features. Typically, youth admitted to the Center are unable to function in normal family or community settings. For many of these high-risk youth, placements in traditional treatment programs have repeatedly failed and reunification with the family shows little promise without stabilizing intervention.
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This implies it's more of behavior modification or "reunification" than psychiatric help.
--- Quote ---The IRTC program is ideal for youth who have the following problems:
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Physically assualtive
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Suicide ideation/threat
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why not "suicide gesture" or "suicide attempt" (it seems to give the impression to me it's trying to indirectly imply it's for people not actually suicidal but using it as a way to "manipulate"). Legally speaking, someone who's suicidal would need "inpatient psychiatric care".
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Homicidal
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Lol, I wonder how equipped they are to deal with that.
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Actively running away
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How is this a psychiatric problem?
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Poor impulse control
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Very vague and can be a vide variety of things based upon what is considered "poor impulse control".
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School behavior problems
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This seems kind of iffy, I don't consider this a psychiatric problem.
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Enuresis
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This is bedwetting right? So we're putting the homicidal and people who have difficultly controlling urination in the same environment and given the same treatment?
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Poor social skills
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That's sad. There is no need to put someone with poor social skills into such an environment, and once again, with people with issues such as being homicidal.
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Encorpesis
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Same comment as the enuresis one.
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Physical and verbal aggression
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What exactly is "verbal aggression"? I think most people have been "verbally agressive" at some point in their lives, and some to a larger extent, especially frustrated teenagers.
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Property destruction
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Chemical dependence
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In other words, any drug use or issue whatsoever.
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Stealing
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Vague. This could be very minor things stolen.
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Sexual issues
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This one is especially vague. "Sexual issues" could be anything, things such as ED or disinterst; being "promiscious" or not being that sweet little virgin mommy and daddy want you to be until married; homosexual desires or feelings; masturbation; pornography etc.; sexual assualt; inappropiate sexual molesting or harassment.
Few of these are appropiate for needing to be locked in a place for "medical help"
Anonymous:
Obviously the only way of knowing is to visit & any place can be abusive. Having said this Boys Town as an organization have a long standing and reputable history of working with young people who often have extensive social, family and legal issues. They have been around from before the days of an "industry" existing. I am not trying to promote them but I would speak to them and if possible any of their clients before coming to any conclusions.
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