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The Troubled Teen Industry / Aspen Achievement Academy
« on: March 01, 2002, 10:39:00 AM »
AParent,
I applaud you for researching the program before making a decision. As a parent, physician, and survivor of Straight, Inc., and based on the information in the website about this program, I also am very skeptical. If you love your child, don't put her in a place that is not equipped to recognize and treat her according to the best medical knowledge we have about substance abuse and psychological or psychiatric disease.
After almost 20 years, I still suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome, despite appearing very normal to other people. It has also destroyed any hope for a good relationship with my parents; even my siblings are emotionally scarred from the experience. And we are the fortunate ones, I guess. Please keep your daughter in a place that will be safe and not destroy her, a place that will truly help her. Forced separation of parent and child is not good, and supervised communication cannot be trusted.
Regarding JCAHO accredidation, hospitals spend a lot of time preparing for the big day JCAHO visits, in order to make a great impression. Once they're gone, they go back to the usual routine. It's better than nothing, but I wouldn't give it more weight than it is worth.
Best of luck.
I applaud you for researching the program before making a decision. As a parent, physician, and survivor of Straight, Inc., and based on the information in the website about this program, I also am very skeptical. If you love your child, don't put her in a place that is not equipped to recognize and treat her according to the best medical knowledge we have about substance abuse and psychological or psychiatric disease.
After almost 20 years, I still suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome, despite appearing very normal to other people. It has also destroyed any hope for a good relationship with my parents; even my siblings are emotionally scarred from the experience. And we are the fortunate ones, I guess. Please keep your daughter in a place that will be safe and not destroy her, a place that will truly help her. Forced separation of parent and child is not good, and supervised communication cannot be trusted.
Regarding JCAHO accredidation, hospitals spend a lot of time preparing for the big day JCAHO visits, in order to make a great impression. Once they're gone, they go back to the usual routine. It's better than nothing, but I wouldn't give it more weight than it is worth.
Best of luck.