Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Carlbrook
Anonymous:
Do you not understand what kind of relationship kids and parents have by the time this point is reached? The kids hate the parents and wouldn't go anywhere with them. The parents are not equipped to be therapists. Unless you have gone to an excellent wilderness program and worked with a therapist there, I don't think your opinion is worth much.
Anonymous:
I've been to Carlbrook as a student and I can tell you that it was the most caring and forgiving environment I have ever been in in my life. I could be myself and feel again. I felt good there.
AtomicAnt:
--- Quote ---On 2005-08-08 15:48:00, Anonymous wrote:
Hate to tell you- but coersion is a fact of life the way your describe it. If you don't do your work at your job, you might get fired. Isn't that coersion?
--- End quote ---
No. The threat of being fired is not coercion. You can disagree with your employer. You can quit. You can leave anytime you want (you might be able to come back if you do). You took the job voluntarily.
How you can possibly compare holding a job to being incarcerated as the same form of coercion is way beyond my ability to comprehend.
Anonymous:
The Carlbrook student who just posted can tell you that he or she was not incarcerated. The student was given the opportunity to learn and grow in an emotionally safe and therapeutic environment.
Anonymous:
Maybe we should agree to disagree on this??? Carlbrook students and parents who have posted on this topic generally like the place. Posters who have not been to Carlbrook, are bashing it. Seems like the Carlbrook people have more credibility. I'd give anything if my kid had not had to go anywhere, but I don't have a goddamn time machine. In that sense, I agree with the posters who say that good parenting is preferable to a program. While in wilderness and at Carlbrook, my husband and I were getting the help we needed.
Since this forum is intended to help kids and parents who sometimes have to make hard choices, I'd like the bashers to consider the possiblilty that Carlbrook may not be a bad place. I found this forum when looking for internet dirt on Carlbrook. I didn't find very much. Found a lot of internet dirt on PCS, Tranquility Bay, Island View, etc. The original poster on this topic asked if Carlbrook might be a good choice for his neighbor's kid. It certainly is a better choice than many other places, and I hope that message has been conveyed.
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