Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Facility Question and Answers
Peninsula Village Q/A thread
Hrt2hrtScandal:
--- Quote from: ""A Program's Worst Nightmare"" --- Specifically:
What did the staff expect from the group of residents towards the one person?
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Staff expects the "truth". They don't want you to tell "stories". They want you to take "responsibility for your actions". Then they expect the group to confront you and help get the "truth" out of you. The problem is "the truth" is never good enough.
For example, before I went to PV I had tried pot one time (and didn't like it), and had more than one beer on one occasion. I should probably add that I come from a small town and most of the kids in my group of friends are very sheltered. Really, all through high school our idea of fun was going to someone's house, watching a movie (very rarely one over a PG-13 rating) ordering pizza, drinking soda until someone got gas, and giggling and laughing a lot about it.
Staff did not want to hear that I tried pot once and drank beer one time. I could tell that story again and again and be accused of lying. However if I had said I was a heavy pot user, and an alcoholic crack head prostitute, they might have accepted that as the truth and maybe I would have been able to advance in the program.
nimdA:
Was participation in these sessions manditory? What might have happened if you sat quietly and said very little?
Hrt2hrtScandal:
Well, YES! It was very mandatory. If you didn't come to group you would have an assist which is where two staff members stood on either side of you and forcefully pulled you up-if you resisted an assist you were probably about to get restrained. If you were on shutdown, which is prolonged exclusion from the group, then you could not go. In the first 3 months I was there I tried to give a lot of feedback to my peers and talk a lot so that I could get out of STU, especially after my restraint. It worked for a while, but things went really downhill. I got put on feedback restriction, which meant I couldn't give my peers feedback, and I usually didn't call time in group therapy.
nimdA:
I was thinking more what would happen if you just sat quietly in group and didn't participate.
Hrt2hrtScandal:
--- Quote from: ""A Program's Worst Nightmare"" ---I was thinking more what would happen if you just sat quietly in group and didn't participate.
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A peer could call time for you, but you didn't have to talk. Not participating though was like asking for trouble. They would really get on you if you did not participate, and I guess I don't need to explain that you were expected to sit quietly if you were not going to say anything.
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