Aspen abusing kids with sexualized role-playing.This article goes into the abuses perpetrated by Aspen facilities in their "LifeSteps" seminars and shows that the basis for Aspen programs is "humiliation."
This can't be swept under the rug anymore. The truth is coming out in a big way. I'm just sorry it's too late for many aspen kids who wound up dead or permanently psychologically damaged by
Aspen's practices.
According to former students and teachers interviewed by TIME, the foundation of the therapeutic method employed at Mount Bachelor is humiliation. “For instance, in required seminars that the school calls Lifesteps, students say staff members of the residential program have instructed girls, some of whom say they have been victims of rape or sexual abuse, to dress in provocative clothing — fishnet stockings, high heels and miniskirts — and perform lap dances for male students as therapy.”
“In a Lifesteps seminar called Forever Young, students were placed on a mattress and taunted with painful information about their childhood that they had previously revealed, an apparent attempt to trigger regression to infancy.” One girl, who was taunted with memories of her younger sister’s death, vomited on the mattress.
But, while some psychologists who are either misguided or misinformed do recommend schools like Mount Bachelor for troubled kids, numerous health care professionals have spoken out against the methods of treatment used at Mount Bachelor, claiming that the “therapy” used at Mount Bachelor causes more harm than good. “Such programs, they say, are overly restrictive and unproven, and virtually all their students — who typically have depression, substance use, behavioral problems or ADHD — can be safely treated within the community.” Mental health experts also point out that separating children from their parents is not healthy except in cases of domestic abuse.
Aspen damages and kills children. That is a fact.
