Ya, they changed motivating when I was there too, in 1990.
Methinks they relapsed for a while. They also changed things like the word cop-out...to "eloped".
They changed belt-looping to walking arm in arm.
As I understood it, this was to meet with standards set by the investigators who had been around alot.
They also said clients were not allowed to help restrain other clients. Staff only. Unless of course 50 kids ran for the door at the same time and there wasnt enough staff in all of Dallas to restrain them. Which happened just before I ran, for several days.
I was interviewed by an investigator once, but staff threatened me ever so subtly that if I talked about how I was given a concussion without medical help....well, I would be sitting on front row. Funny, the investigator already knew about it from an ex-parent. She asked me if I wanted to press charges and I lied and said no. And that it didnt happen. After all, I had to go back and face group fueled by a conniving executive staff member. Fuck that!
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
--Benjamin Franklin, (1773)