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The Carlbrook thread
psy:
--- Quote from: ""try another castle"" ---Even if there were licensed therapists, psy, there is always the possibility that they were kept "out of the loop" from the rest of the program, which is common. The fornits user formerCEDUtherapist has talked about that in the past. He/she had NO idea about what went on there.
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Same where i was. Once a week at the shrink's office... Although i have my doubts as to how much he actually knew... He had to know.... But i said the same thing about my parents and it was wrong... So maybe he was just an incredibly stupid therapist.
Asshole wrote a horrendous review of me. It was not consistent with previous evaluations or those taken after Benchmark... which makes me think the program had a lot of input into what he wrote. (He did communicate with the program a lot (they did give him reviews)).
Fucker told my parents that on my own I would end up in the bath-houses of San-Fransisco... And i didn't even have sex in program!... and only a few times (1female, 1 male) before that. I hope he gets hit by a truck or something... unless he was ignorant of course... in which case I hope Jayne (program director) gets hit by a truck.... well I wish that anyway...
What the program told him? I will never know.
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--- Quote ---I believe Carlbrook served a purpose for my son and our family. Much of this success was simply due to a fortuitous combination of factors unrelated to the therapeutic structure of Carlbrook.
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Now, to me, this doesn't make sense at all. If it wasn't Carlbrook, then what was it, and why are you crediting Carlbrook for it, Karen?
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A piece of paper i'm guessing... You mentioned before, Karen that his improvement was mainly due to his introspection during his solitary confinement later on.
enough commentary... i don't want to add any more questions before you get the previous ones answered anyway.
Night night.
psy:
whoops... double post..
Charly:
I know this is a fine distinction, but I am not crediting the Carlbrook PROGRAM with helping my son. I am crediting his time away from home (and 2N wilderness), the opportunity to think, write and reflect on where he wanted to go with his life and how he had gotten off track, the opportunity to live in a close community and make close friends without the relationships being based on competition, social factors or thrill-seeking, and a good therapist.
The therapists were degreed and many were licensed. My son's was a licensed psychologist and he was very involved with the kids day in and day out. All the advisors were.
Our son could write to us (he didn't usually because he was mad at us), he could ask for an email to be sent to us, he could call us every other week and his therapist was very good about conveying messages to us about what he wanted us to send or what he wanted to tell us (our son conveyed that this was done in every instance). Parents could send treats for the group for a birthday or holiday.
It IS CEDU based- no question about that. However, it sounds to me like a lot of the CEDU workshops were softened. They slept, were well fed, and overall I don't think they were as confrontational.
Charly:
Re: the moving of seats in the groups. It wasn't just for yelling at someone. It was for addressing them at all. In the family groups we had, it a kid wanted to address their parent, they moved across the circle.
Deborah:
--- Quote from: ""Charly"" ---The therapists were degreed and many were licensed. My son's was a licensed psychologist and he was very involved with the kids day in and day out. All the advisors were.
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Did you personally confirm this, or take their word for it? HLA claimed the same, but when we checked we found that only one was licensed, and the majority of the teachers weren't certified.
--- Quote ---Our son could write to us (he didn't usually because he was mad at us), he could ask for an email to be sent to us, he could call us every other week
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Once every two weeks? Blanket policy? How do you "rebuild a relationship/trust" during two brief phone calls per month? Were you ok with this? Fundamentally, legally, how does a 'boarding school' get away with limiting contact between kid and parent without a court order? Because the parent cooperates with their requirement. And why would the parent agree to this? What could possibly be gained, except that kids have less opportunity to report what's actually going on.
--- Quote ---Parents could send treats for the group for a birthday or holiday.
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How sweet and thoughtful. Are you sure the kids actually received them? I'm really surprised. What if a wayward parent spiked the brownies? Seems they'd have some kind of policy against that.
--- Quote ---It IS CEDU based- no question about that. However, it sounds to me like a lot of the CEDU workshops were softened. They slept, were well fed, and overall I don't think they were as confrontational.
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