***I don't think Specialty Boarding Schools are considered Mental Health or Health Care industry, If they were in those industries they would be at least three times the price of what most current tuitions.***
I'm wondering now if you've really been brainwashed or have just failed to educate yourself, or for some reason would like to put a false spin on reality. Of course, SBS, TBS, RTC are part of the Mental Health Industry. The ones who have FT "professionals" on staff ARE expensive. And as critics claim, the less expensive ones are so because they don't hire FT "professionals". Further, if these facilities are not mental health facilties, then how are parents being reimbursed? Insurance companies don't pay for traditional boarding schools or tough-love intervention.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe02.htmlExcerpts:
The difference between a Residential Treatment Center, for example, and an Emotional Growth School depends on the different emphases each places on the use of Psychiatry, Therapy, Structure (he used the term Milieu), Education, and Recreation. For example, a Residential Treatment Center will emphasize Psychiatry, Therapy and Therapeutic Structure in its program, with only minor elements of Recreation and Education. On the other hand, an Emotional Growth School is basically a mirror image of a RTC, in that the emphasis is on Structure, Education, and Recreation/activity, with only a minor role being played by Therapy and Psychiatry.
Many at that time felt that by applying scientific techniques from the medical community to mental health problems, they were on the verge of creating a miracle, that is, a society with a definitive solution to age-old behavior and emotional problems. This dream, plus amazing profits, was the driving force behind a major building boom in the seventies by hospitals and other facilities to treat all kinds of mental health conditions for young people through such institutions as youth psychiatric hospitals and wards, drug treatment programs and Residential Treatment Centers. Yet, 30 years later, reeling from accusations of ?warehousing,? ?outrageous costs,? and frequent ?lack-luster outcomes,? the mental health industry is seeing major changes. What happened?
Even in 1969, there was a considerable backlash to the direction the mental health establishment was going. Calling the prevalent mental health approach ?insensitive to our humanness,? and ?an out-of-balance extreme use of the scientific method,? a large number of alternatives were developed in the sixties and seventies challenging the prevailing ?scientific mental health? philosophy. Created mostly by lay people, movements such as AA, Synonon, Christian counseling, est and many more strove to prove that the factors of relationships, spirituality, adult role models and emotional maturity, the things discounted by mental health clinicians of the time, were really the most important keys to healing.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe05.htmlTHE MARATHON WORKSHOP and its value as a counseling tool in emotional growth schools
Where did these workshops come from? From creative minds. They came from often controversial influences and beginnings ? Synanon, Lifespring, est, ? out of the ?60?s ? and from many of the earliest creative innovators in the mental health field.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... een02.htmlThe article traced Tranquility Bay?s TASK seminars back through Lifespring, est, to the Spanish Inquisition, the anti-Papist trials, and Chinese thought control or ?reeducation.? As you might imagine, the general tone is hostile.
