I'd like to hear more on this subject. With involuntary placements compliance is always an issue. I'm trying to figure out the methods that were used to gain compliance from kids who were not voluntarily participating in the program.
If you take what I posted in your first question thread, put that together with what Frod and Shaggys have just said.....you get a pretty good idea. What more, specifically, would you like to know? We were scared to death of being "reported" for some ridiculously small infraction of a rule. Afraid of getting beaten, afraid of being ostricized from the 'group' we had now become dependent upon (Stockholm Syndrome), afraid of being 'confronted' (read, verbally attacked) by said group, afraid of being further denied sleep, food, water, seeing our parents, seeing the outside world at all etc.
It's easy to get them to comply under the conditions we were in, but is compliance really what's valued out of these places? Compliance is very different from real, true change.