Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks
any questions for me?
am_i_that_crazy22:
i cant say why i got pulled, because it wouldbe obvs who i am and i kno ken sneaks on here all the time. for reasons that r sorta personal i cant reveal who i am for right now. a lot of students get pulled because they arent making progress. ill be honest i can count only on one hand how many success stories there have been at calo, and most go home and slip. i trusted my parents way less when i was pulled, still in shock that i was sent to a place like that at all. it damaged our relationship beyond repair. calo did not help me and i was open to it. i never once fought it. and the dog program is mad annoying. i hated golden retrievers after i went to calo, and i love dogs.
yeh they r bans. regroup is esentially working or cleaning as a form of punishment. i dont give a **** what they try to tell u saying it helps clear ur mind, thas a lie. they do it to punish u. they can make u work outside in the sun for hours its bad.
there were some girls and boys too who would flirt with staff or spend 2 much time with them and it looked weird. the staff usually were not at fault but this was poor boundaries by the students. there were staff that violated boundaries an they got fired immidiaetly. even some that had been there a long time. staff getting too close and/or having favorites is pretty normal. there was one girl there who everyone hated becuz she threw tantrums and no staff liked her. i thot this was unfair because she couldnt help it, but they really didnt like her. yet there were other girls who were loved by staff cuz they were either super mellow or they were super intimidating and staff feared them so they sucked up to the girls. not so much with therapists but floor staff. if i reveal what category i was in i would reveal my identityy completly. staff unfortuntly were also known to gossip a lot. they say its such an honest place but parents who r reading this STAFF LIE ABOUT UR KID A LOT. i knew on phone calls when staff would write things to say that never happened during the week when they updated my parents. no lie. the staff have to do notes on a student and if they didnt spend time with them during the day sometimes they just lie about stuff. it sucked. luckily my therapist who was the only real person at calo, had my back.
yes he was still teaching staff . i think him and another staff name joe do it. he def needs to quit he is just too much. and rec therapy was the stupidest not theraputic aspect of the whole treatment process, even tho it claimed to be so great. caleb if u read this do the kids a favor and retire. no 1 likes u.
truth?!65:
so i guess my main question for you is do you just not like calo because they actually set boundaries, and being there forced you to deal, and be vulnerable? and why was rec therapy not therapeutic?
Che Gookin:
--- Quote from: "truth?!65" ---so i guess my main question for you is do you just not like calo because they actually set boundaries
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There are boundaries and then there are boundaries. With staff reportedly having inappropriate relationships with detainees I'd say the boundaries set by CALO are highly hypocritical. Further, boundaries are a two way street.
Staff can not demand to be respected and then turn around and reduce a detainee to a heap of nothing by verbally abusing them in front of a group of his/her peers.
Staff can not demand respect for their authority and then abuse their authority by restraining students using a painful wristlock.
Whatever Boundaries CALO claims to set, they are far more notorious for destroying the idea of what healthy and responsible boundaries are between functioning members of society.
--- Quote --- and being there forced you to deal, and be vulnerable?
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This is retarded. Complete utter bullshit. YOU can't force someone to do this and expect a meaningful return. This is merely creating a dependency on the program and group in a cult style thought reform tactic.
--- Quote --- and why was rec therapy not therapeutic?
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I normally try to avoid answering a question by asking a question.. but..
Why is mucking around with a bunch of dogs considered therapeutic? From the reports I've gotten there have been a number of incidents of the dogs being abused by the detainees and the program.
Tell me how it is theraputic for children to be around dogs being abused?
am_i_that_crazy22:
--- Quote from: "truth?!65" ---so i guess my main question for you is do you just not like calo because they actually set boundaries, and being there forced you to deal, and be vulnerable? and why was rec therapy not therapeutic?
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truth - obvs ur sum nutcase calo parent or an event mor nutcase therapist/staff/ken. calo RUIND my life. i repeat. RUINED my life. u shuld actually go learn sumthing and go read my post about my time by now years ago. if u want me to disclose who i am i will i don give a fuck.
ps i could be anyone from calo, and no one. a staff, a student, whoever. but i know what goes on there, and how it is a breeding ground for assholes who wanna power trip over a bunch of sick kids.
and also, i know ur language too much to recognize ur some wack job who works there. "be vulnerable" "forced you to deal" lmfao u work there n i kno it. pathetic.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "am_i_that_crazy22" ---
--- Quote from: "truth?!65" ---so i guess my main question for you is do you just not like calo because they actually set boundaries, and being there forced you to deal, and be vulnerable? and why was rec therapy not therapeutic?
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truth - obvs ur sum nutcase calo parent or an event mor nutcase therapist/staff/ken. calo RUIND my life. i repeat. RUINED my life. u shuld actually go learn sumthing and go read my post about my time by now years ago. if u want me to disclose who i am i will i don give a fuck.
ps i could be anyone from calo, and no one. a staff, a student, whoever. but i know what goes on there, and how it is a breeding ground for assholes who wanna power trip over a bunch of sick kids.
and also, i know ur language too much to recognize ur some wack job who works there. "be vulnerable" "forced you to deal" lmfao u work there n i kno it. pathetic.
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I just love this phrase, "do you just not like calo because they actually set boundaries," ...when what these programs actually DO is strip down YOUR natural boundaries, in order to impose their own criteria of what it is you should and should not do and how you should behave. The intended end result being some facsimile of an appropriately cooperative child who resembles what a parent has been indoctrinated to believe is psychologically healthy, wholesome, and some sort of an ideal.
Of course, people have boundaries for good reasons. Natural, healthy, and utterly sane reasons, and to fuck with those is, quite frankly, tantamount to potentially effecting or enabling some really quite destructive dynamics, imo. If you teach a kid that it's wrong to put up barriers and that they are impeding the "therapeutic process" by doing so, you are setting them up for being taken advantage of. Either then or later.
If it doesn't feel right, there's probably a good reason for it.
Yes, some kids have very damaged abilities to trust, but to try to trash their instincts of self preservation and supplant them with your own dictates is a recipe for disaster.
Just my 2ยข, fwiw...
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