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Anonymous:
NO they are not - call the DEEC at 617-988-6600 and ask them if they are licensed by them, then ask if they are not licensed who then regulates them and oversee's them...NO ONE Pray that nothing happens to those kids, while on medication, administering restraint, etc...
Anonymous:
we do not do restraints at ASR.
Anonymous:
I talked to my friend after the losers at ASR got through with her. She was a wreck. She liked some of the counselors, some of them were nice people.
She liked being able to tell her parents she was a lesbian and have her wicked step turn purple trying not to go into conniption fits as everyone stomped all over said step in the "reconciliation" meetings.
She liked Costa Rica.
And she was a complete and total emotional wreck when she got out of the place. She has no relationship, nor will ever, with the wicked step. The parent who sent her, she has a relationship with, but it has been permanently adversely impacted by both the harm ASR did my friend and said parent's lack of ability to recognize what a horrible, damaging, totally irresponsible choice the parent made in sending her to ASR.
My friend was a good person with her head screwed on straight before she went---a bright, talented, promising young woman. She still is those things, now underlain by a layer of pain, disillusionment, sadness, betrayal, and lingering trauma damage from ASR.
She is coping. She was on track to be a real winner of a young lady before, she is on track for the same now.
But the damage ASR did to her will always be with her, and will always be needless harm and nightmares she has to overcome, for the rest of her life.
Why was she sent? Because she had the nerve to get mad when the wicked step pulled yet another jerk stunt and because she had the bald-faced gall not to love the wicked step. She was sent because the wicked step is a jerk and any parent is almost always going to side with the person on the other side of the bed. More so if that person is a total jerk, because then the parent has to be enough of an idiot, or desperate enough, not to recognize a real jerk when they're sleeping with one.
Having a wicked step is an average bad problem an unfortunate number of teens have to deal with.
ASR was way beyond average bad. She will struggle with the aftereffects for life, and her relationship with her parent will never fully recover from the damage. It will recover more if her parent ever comes to recognize that gross error of judgment, but even so will always be more distant and less trusting than it was.
If you asked her parent, I'm sure you'd be told how wonderful ASR is and was for my friend. It's easy to convince yourself something is wonderful after you've already spent thousands of dollars on it.
But no matter how much the parent's self-delusion persists, the relationship with that daughter has been damaged for life. The parent is lucky the daughter is such a wonderful, caring, forgiving person or there would be *no* relationship.
Julie
Troll Control:
For everyone, especially The Who, that stuck to the tired argument that Dave Marcus is an "impartial author" just writing about ASR - the good and bad, here's the deal...
I said all along that Marcus was a program shill - and he is. Recent news states that Marcus is now an "Emotional Growth Seminar Facilitator" working with renowned child abuser Rudy Bentz. Keep in mind neither Marcus nor Bentz have any education whatsoever in the area of mental health treatment.
There ya go, mindless program supporters. DAVE MARCUS is now an OFFICIAL SHILL. This is just another item in a long list that all of you vehemently denied, but, again you are wrong - like you are on just about every single issue ever debated here.
HurleyGirley, can you please elaborate on this topic?
Deborah:
Dear Lord...
So, he hangs out in an unlicensed, experiemental, BM facility and suddenly he's an "Adolescent Behavior Expert"?
Go back to World News, Dave.
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