Yanno, I love this shit.
NOBODY here can give a clear cut answer as to what the criteria for needing 'wilderness' or 'RTC' are, what they do, or how they do it, or even how you know it worked, but they all can agree that they trust it to work.
Amazing!
The PROPER MEDICAL criteria of locking someone up is if they would literally die or suffer severe injury if they werent being supervised 24/7 by trained, equipped staff. Programs have poorly trained (if that) underequipped staff - they only thing they can do is do sloppy takedowns and maybe jab some halodol into said kids buttcheek.
Now, Im sure programs/programmies might say that they 'feel' (subjectively, and theyre not experts in anything but manipulating parents and the words of teenagers...) the kid would hurt themself or others without supervision, but not even that shaky arguement works considering 99% of programs have proper medical facilities.
DJ, youre wasting your time. Take a step back, clear your head, and analyze what you and I say vs what they say, and more importantly HOW we say it. We come on with facts, rational thought and they come on with emotions and feelings from the get go. The way we describe things is more factual and thoughtful whereas theyre all about FEELINGS.
I feel it should be obvious what im trying to get at - but its not like this thread was in vain. Anyone who still hasnt drunken the punch, so to speak, whose reading this thread will be able to decide for themselves unless theyre a predisposed program junkie themselves and prefer feelings to facts.