Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Brat Camp
What critics say
webcrawler:
--- Quote ---On 2005-07-14 11:04:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Your post tells the whole story and you still don't get it.
People in this country---parents, media types, CPS, whoever---just don't buy the line you're selling that putting limits on a kid is abuse.
It's just a few malcontents like yourself who think that putting a defiant drug abusing kid in a program is abuse.
Oh you may find a scum bag lawyer here and there who will try to trump up a case in certain circumstances but without enough stupid gullible people on the jury, that case is going to go nowhere
Bottom line: reason there is virtually no criticism of Brat Camp (which btw I think should NOT have been televised because these kids deserved privacy in working out their problems) is because the country (except for some posters here apparently) has collectively grown up and is no longer willing to let adolescents run wild and ruin their lives in the name of unguided self-expression"
--- End quote ---
Oh, but you are wrong I do get it. I get that people like you have perverse pleasure in making kids suffer all in the name of treatment.
Chances are the parents are the ones that helped contribute to all the underlying problems that caused the kids to act out.
Treatment should not mentally or phyically harm someone, nor put them at risk. Your right I'm "malcontent". I'm not content with people harming kids. I know you thought you were attacking my intelligence by your snide remark, but you have failed.
I am also not against treatment that is based on a strengths / empowerment based approach and on an out patient basis.
These places are causing more harm. The break them down and build them up approach is not an effective means of beneficial treatment. If you understand anything about brain washing techniques this is a major component.
Sounds like I hit a nerve with you. ***Patting myself on the back***** :wave:
Also there have been numerous studies done on offenders that went through boot camp programs versus jail and prison and it DID NOT lower any recidivism rates. I highly doubt these places for teens have any long term effects of stopping "undesirable" behaviors.
Anonymous:
The credits were "inspiring." And just how does one become CERTIFIED as a restraint specialist?
And just how many kids have died in these programs while being restrained? Made me want to throw up.
webcrawler:
Perhaps we should threaten to boycott ABC's Desperate Housewives to get Brat Camp off the air. Desperate Housewives is their pride and joy. :rofl:
Someone please make a note of the advertisers sponsoring brat camp the next time you watch it.
BTW any therapist that thinks their clients are brats are in the wrong profession. Shame on you for working in a place like this!!!!!!!!!
Regarding the previous post about professional ethics: you are absolutely right!
Deborah:
One of the screwed up families on Desperate Housewives sent their son to a boot camp.
Did you see the trailer that aired during the program for another series to air on ABC?
Wildfires- missed part of it but something along the lines of a teen girl being sent to a gulag that was a horse ranch. She refered to it as 'prison'.
Now these guys are really clever, the one's with the farms/ranches. They get free labor in addition to tuition. What a sweet, sweet, deal.
Anonymous:
it won't be along long. the show was horrible. of course everyone here found it interesting though.
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