It's Okay for Dean to Lie

[Anonymous]

AARC has, after their exposure as a completely illegitimate fraud on national television, had to dump most of their old media section.  In particular, AARC kept two articles from Alberta Report posted on their website, both of which referred to Dean Vause as a psychologist.  This allows plausible deniability for Dean because he is not a psychologist, and it is against the law to refer to yourself as such in print in Alberta if you are not a licensed psychologist.  So Dean kept the articles posted so that anyone reading them would have the impression that he is a mental health professional, when he is in fact a phys ed teacher and guidance counselor.
 http://www.aarc.ab.ca/images/media/2001 ... eshere.pdf

Fortunately, the article can still be found, adding to the litany of outright lies concerning AARC, from the lie that  RK Dougan chose to ditch the Kids model, when in fact he arranged for Kids to get $600 000 of rotary club money, to the lie that the AARC program is clinically validated and based in research, when it is in fact a replication of the program the Seed, created over twenty years before AARC, to Janne Holmgren's outlandish claim that AARC is operating within the law, when in fact the performance of Restricted Activities by unlicensed persons goes on every day at AARC, unlawful confinement is used to keep clients in AARC and millions of dollars are disappearing each year into a facility that provides non-professional day services to less than seventy people.

[TheWho]

I can see where you might have gotten confused.  When someone is being quoted in an article or periodical they (the interviewer)  places quotation marks around the words of the interviewee.  You will see this throughout the article.  If you take the time to read it more carefully Dr. Vause never mentioned he was a psychologist.  
Geesh, AARC must not be such a bad place if all you can find to discredit it is an error in one newspaper from 2001 out of the thousands of articles written on the place.

[Anonymous]

AARC has, after their exposure as a completely illegitimate fraud on national television, had to dump most of their old media section. In particular, AARC kept two articles from Alberta Report posted on their website, both of which referred to Dean Vause as a psychologist. This allows plausible deniability for Dean because he is not a psychologist, and it is against the law to refer to yourself as such in print in Alberta if you are not a licensed psychologist. So Dean kept the articles posted so that anyone reading them would have the impression that he is a mental health professional, when he is in fact a phys ed teacher and guidance counselor.
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/images/media/2001 ... eshere.pdf

Fortunately, the article can still be found, adding to the litany of outright lies concerning AARC, from the lie that RK Dougan chose to ditch the Kids model, when in fact he arranged for Kids to get $600 000 of rotary club money, to the lie that the AARC program is clinically validated and based in research, when it is in fact a replication of the program the Seed, created over twenty years before AARC, to Janne Holmgren's outlandish claim that AARC is operating within the law, when in fact the performance of Restricted Activities by unlicensed persons goes on every day at AARC, unlawful confinement is used to keep clients in AARC and millions of dollars are disappearing each year into a facility that provides non-professional day services to less than seventy people.

[Anonymous]

How come nobody wants to take the credit for the evaluation of AARC's success rate? Who's lying there, Patton or Vause?
If AARC's success rate is so accurate and independently validated, why have I seen adamant claims of 80%, 85% and even 86%? Which is it?
The big shocker for me was when Vause said on the Fifth Estate "Nobody's ever brought it (abuse) forward to me." Wow.
What are those A.A. principles again? Honesty? Integrity? Justice? Sounds like there are some folks at AARC who should practice what they preach.
Still waiting for my amends. You can email it to me -  
 :fuckoff:  @yahoo.com

[Anonymous]

Just out of curiosity, do they still play this song about three times/day?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rbRg5Beb4

Uh oh, someone's gonna get busted for lying in rap! Who could it be? Hope it's not me! That was rather comical looking back. How did our untrained peer counselors know when we were lying about an incident anyway? Oh whoops, I almost forgot about OTW training (Oldcomer Training Week), so I guess it's not fair to say that they had no training at all. Tell me, when you apply to become a peer counselor at AARC, do you actually provide a resume?  

Education: Grade 9, with a PhD in Pain from the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
Training: 1 week oldcomer training: Learned how to tackle kids when they try to run. Learned how to process someone's day (do you even understand how fucked up that is?). Learned how to humiliate kids on the zero club.

"The peer counselors, graduates of AARC, range in age from 18 to 22. Having battled and kicked their own addictions, they mentor, nag and confront newcomers. "You can't con the con man," says Dr. Vause. "These kids don't come here because they see the light - rather, they feel the heat. They're the biggest cons I've ever met. They are not honest; they're addicted and they're nasty. So we have a philosophy: bad manners only understands bad manners. We get in their face. We have to meet them on their level. They can't come in here and run the system. They're masters at bullying other clients, or manipulating to get the heat off." "We don't let that happen here, and that's why AARC works," he says.

"All peer counselors are required to furthering their education while working at AARC. Many have degrees, giving them a powerful blend of real like experience, clinical expertise and academic training."  :roflmao:

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.... Darn it, just when I finally got that song out of my head.

[psy]

I can see where you might have gotten confused.  When someone is being quoted in an article or periodical they (the interviewer)  places quotation marks around the words of the interviewee.  You will see this throughout the article.  If you take the time to read it more carefully Dr. Vause never mentioned he was a psychologist.  

Good argument.  But i'm betting the reporter didn't "accidentally" make such a mistake.  I would bet money that if you asked him he would say that Dean represented himself as a psychologist and it wasn't just an assumption.

[psy]

"You can't con the con man," says Dr. Vause.

I've always found that statement hilarious given the speaker basically admits to being a con man.  If Dean ever sues anybody for accusing him of being a con man, that statement might be used as a cheeky defense.

[Anonymous]

http://www.mediarights.org/film/recovering_krystal

Under the leadership of psychiatrist Dean Vause, AARC works with troubled teens and their families over an intense and often grueling eight to twelve-month period.

Fanlight eventually corrected their synopsis, as you can see here http://www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/378_rk.php but for five years it referred to Vause as a psychiatrist.

 :twofinger:

[Anonymous]

http://www.mediarights.org/film/recovering_krystal

Under the leadership of psychiatrist Dean Vause, AARC works with troubled teens and their families over an intense and often grueling eight to twelve-month period.

Fanlight eventually corrected their synopsis, as you can see here http://www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/378_rk.php but for five years it referred to Vause as a psychiatrist.

 :twofinger:

Hooo!! Boy HOWDY that there is some funny shit, ain't it? Granted now, it'd be funnier if it wasn't TRUE...  :timeout:

Back in good ol' Straight Incorp they used to try and tell ya that the fortunate 7-schlepper now possessed an equivalent to a degree in psychology or some shit.. (Oh yeah riiiiiiiiiite, Dr. Newton... )  :bs:  :beat:  :roflmao:  ::poke::

[Ursus]

"You can't con the con man," says Dr. Vause.

I've always found that statement hilarious given the speaker basically admits to being a con man.  If Dean ever sues anybody for accusing him of being a con man, that statement might be used as a cheeky defense.

Who first came up with that old saw? It's often linked to prison rehab, drug rehab, etc. Joe Gauld also used to say that back in the early 1970s.