Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
HLA SECRETS - PART II
Deborah:
Thanks.
Not to worry about being 'long winded'. It's very informative and helpful to others.
In terms of the monitored phone calls, my son was there 20 months (against my wishes) and we never had an unmonitored call. Lindsey was the HM then.
I rarely got a call after I reported Ridge Creek for operating an unlicensed wilderness program, which was about the last six months he was there, and was told that my calls would be monitored indefinitely. Very lucky for them that their facility was 1,000 miles away...
They had him lined up to go to Gould Academy upon graduation, when the light finally came on for his dad and he pulled him two months early.
Was your incoming/outgoing mail censored?
[ This Message was edited by: Deborah on 2006-04-27 19:26 ]
kid_thorazine:
all of our mail was censored, or at least read. I wonder if they knew that its illegal to open other peoples mail. I know i wrote several letters and e-mails to my parents that where returned to me for being innapropriate because i wrote about some of the not so great things that happened there.
Anonymous:
I cant think of a time they deliberately doctored or altered a letter that was sent, however after a while they didnt have to. After not too long you learned. If you wanted contact with your parents at all, you simply didn't mention anything negative or truthful about Hidden Lake. At that point, just having those 10-15 minute phone calls were more important.
And Deborah, did your child have monitered phone calls or conference calls with the counselor? Theres a difference. All students had monitered calls, however the students still physically held the phone, and a staff was just in the room listening to our end. In conference calls, which i was on my entire stay there, you went to the counselors office and the parent was put on speaker phone and the counselors sat by your side. If anything was said they didn't approve of, they could immediately jump in, and most times answered questions my parents asked me, themselves, before I had a chance to respond.
Deborah:
Apparently the attempted suicide was mentioned before but it was never divulged that she hung herself.
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Deborah:
***"I cant think of a time they deliberately doctored or altered a letter that was sent, however after a while they didnt have to. After not too long you learned. If you wanted contact with your parents at all, you simply didn't mention anything negative or truthful about Hidden Lake. At that point, just having those 10-15 minute phone calls were more important."
Yeh, 'conditioning' the kid and their parent. How could a child report abuse? How would their parent ever know?
***And Deborah, did your child have monitered phone calls or conference calls with the counselor? Theres a difference. All students had monitered calls, however the students still physically held the phone, and a staff was just in the room listening to our end. In conference calls, which i was on my entire stay there, you went to the counselors office and the parent was put on speaker phone and the counselors sat by your side. If anything was said they didn't approve of, they could immediately jump in, and most times answered questions my parents asked me, themselves, before I had a chance to respond.
We had both. What sickening feelings this brings up!! If we were talking about anything that was real or family stuff the 'counselor' would interrupt and ask my son if he wanted to tell me about his therapuetic accomplishments for the week, or some such. Never had an uninterrupted conversation. Often times I'd ask my son a question and the counselor would start to answer. I'd ask him to let me son answer. Needlessly to say, I was not their favorite parent. I also had one of his counselors violate my confidence, which I have written about here. Then put my son on restrictions for 'manipulating' me.
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