Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Who Laments on How He'd Run HLA.... Aspen Style
Deborah:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---If they are under the weekly supervision of a Licensed Therapist then they are okay with the state. Call the Secretary of State to make sure if you want to. If it weren't true, this would be the first thing ORS would have hit them with. They would not have even gotten a provisional license.
There is plenty to jump on HLA about, this isn't one of them. The one thing you can get them for in this area is hiring people with Master's Degrees outside of the field of counseling and passing them off as counselors. That has happened pretty regularly.
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How many can a licensed therapist supervise?
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Thank you.
Now the next step is to tie this requirement back to HLA and check to see how many counselors are referred to as:
Professional counselor
Associate professional counselor
Social worker
Marriage and family therapist
Associate marriage and family therapist
If they hold any of these titles then they are required to be licensed in the State of Georgia under Title 43 Chapter 10A.
The next step is to check the titles of the employees of HLA and if they are using any of the above titles we will check for the license to use the stated Title.
I will take this one since you guys provided the statutes.
::hatter::
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so what you are saying is that there is a loophole which hla exploited. from a strict constructionist viewpoint what you are saying is correct, but unfortunately with a little bit of "reading between the lines with common sense", it becomes very illegal. essentially, if someone is not qualified to be licensed but wants to work in that field, and do the exact same thing, all they have to do is change their job title to something thats not on the list. although it's legal it's not ethical because it's very misleading. even if the parent knows the law by heart, he/she is most likely going to assume that "professional counselor" and "masters level peer-group counselor" are synonyms, "one used officially and one used for marketing".
this is very, very simmilar to what hidden lake did with ORS: by calling it a "theraputic boarding school", and claiming it was a "boarding school with a theraputic aspect" they managed to dodge the regulations they would be subjected to if they were to be a "residential treatment facility with academics".
Anonymous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purposive_theory
Anonymous:
i they've really done the switcheroo at hla
denny beatty was a peer group counselor when i was there in
http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadPr ... ?userID=19
Kees was once upon a time a counselor, but it was a long long time ago, like peer group 3 or 4.
http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadPr ... ?userID=96
this guy, lance, although i guess he may be qualified, is a very evil individual. just pure evil. i get the chills being around him. it's like he's the seed of satan. it's like im just waiting for him to grow horns and a tail and whip out a pitchfork. note: i am not a christian.
http://www.hiddenlakeacademy.com/loadPr ... userID=127
Ted McAlister was lance's evil twin. luckily, he dont work there no more.
i've noticed the amount pg counselors has gone down from like 2 dozen when i was there to 6. hip hip horay fornits and the lawsuit is doing it's job! when you got hundreds of graduates bent on giving you a hard time...well....youre gonna have a hard time...
Anonymous:
Word is Lance is now working at Ridge Creek. Why's he still listed on HLA's web site as PG Counselor?
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