Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
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Troll Control:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-25 17:43:00, Badpuppy wrote:
"It takes absolutely no mental health training at all, NONE, to assess that this deleterious tactic is destablizing. No doubt whoever ordered her to do this must have been a man receiving vicarious pleasure from this unfortunate victim of a perverse form of involuntary pornography. All mental health workers have a duty under their association's ehtics guidelines to report this gross incompetence and negligent child care. It is ASTROUNDING that this place has a license of any sort. If I asked a twelve year whether someone should be forced to reveal a horrifying experience in front of people they don't trust, they would come up with the right answere.[ This Message was edited by: Badpuppy on 2006-05-25 17:49 ]"
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And yet this is how they have done "therapy" for the past decade. It's not the people, it's the system and it's incredibly damaging.
This is why their retention rate is falling below forty percent. After a workshop or two the parents see the damage/backslide/worsening condition, etc. and pull their kids out. This is why their "graduates" (less than forty percent) continue to have serious mental health issues including PTSD from being re-victimized and traumatized by hacks and quacks.
Anonymous:
Your mom is a hack and quack
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Deborah:
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... t=0#197357
Badpuppy:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-31 05:30:00, Dysfunction Junction wrote:
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On 2006-05-25 17:43:00, Badpuppy wrote:
"It takes absolutely no mental health training at all, NONE, to assess that this deleterious tactic is destablizing. No doubt whoever ordered her to do this must have been a man receiving vicarious pleasure from this unfortunate victim of a perverse form of involuntary pornography. All mental health workers have a duty under their association's ehtics guidelines to report this gross incompetence and negligent child care. It is ASTROUNDING that this place has a license of any sort. If I asked a twelve year whether someone should be forced to reveal a horrifying experience in front of people they don't trust, they would come up with the right answere.[ This Message was edited by: Badpuppy on 2006-05-25 17:49 ]"
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And yet this is how they have done "therapy" for the past decade. It's not the people, it's the system and it's incredibly damaging.
This is why their retention rate is falling below forty percent. After a workshop or two the parents see the damage/backslide/worsening
condition, etc. and pull their kids out. This is why their "graduates" (less than forty percent) continue to have serious mental health issues including PTSD from being re-victimized and traumatized by hacks and quacks.
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Yes, parents are always looking for the ancedotal tales of success or failure without the sophistication to realize that damage is endemic to this therapuetic model.
1) Kids health and safty is inevitably comprised by the dearth of regulation.
2) The absense of regulation allows greed and avarice to take precedence over clinical judgement.
3) The isolation and artificial environment of this therapuetic miliue exacerbates symtomology and desensitizes residents who need to develop emphathy and compassion as important relationship skills.
4) The ridgitity of the system is unable to accomodate the unique treatment needs of every child. They are individual treatment plans in name only. Control and obediance to authority is what these places are about, resulting in a teen warehouse. The growth of self control and real relationship skills are retarded. The feelings of depersonalization and objectification are intensified.
5) The system is self-perpetuating and recidivist in that it hires counselors without the experience or professional skill to understand the negative inpact of this institutional quagmire. When conduct is questioned dissent is crushed. Staff turnover is very high. The one counselor who attempted to address my question was clueless about the concept of "working it through" Any freshman psychology student, could exemplify this. The incompetence is uttterly shocking. I was left apoplectic. I was asking about the treatment of sexual identity issues, not leprosy, although judging by how fast they ran from it they might as well be the same. This is Frankentherapy, a therapy so far from objective reality it has no psychological validity.
Troll Control:
Well said, and accurate.
One thing:
--- Quote ---They are individual treatment plans in name only.
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HLA does not provide treatment planning. Only some attendees are psychologically evaluated. Their website even states that Ed Cons may make a diagnosis of ODD and they will accept that child based on the dx of an Ed Con.
This is a two-faceted problem. One, kids are not tested, diagnosed and treated accordingly by licensed providers and two, if they actually did provide treatment planning, it would be a violation of ORS regulations regarding "private boarding schools," as they are forbidden to perform treatment planning.
They are very big on saying HLA "falls between" a school and a treatment center. This is true in one respect: they provide niether an education nor treatment.
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