Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Facility Question and Answers
Unita Academy, Wellsville, UT
Anonymous:
Our daughter is currently at Uinta. We have nothing but good things to say about the program and the results. We expect her to leave after 12 months. She now has a understanding how her dangerous behavior affected herself and those around her. We went from being hopeless after making the very difficult decision to send her to a wilderness program to hopeful as we drove her directly to Uinta. They understand how to reach these girls. Our daughter has embraced the target skills and comes to each therapy session with thoughtful analysis. We got lucky w/ a therapist she really resonates with and, for the first time since grade school, she enjoys herself. Please let me know if you have any specific questions I can answer. I will say, with any type of program, it is important you advocate for yourself and your child.
I hope the people on this blog who want to get into 'bad parent' bashing never have to experience what we have with our daughter. You can't judge. You don't know what kind of parents we were, what we tried to do to guide our daughter through the difficulty of middle/high school, and all the things we tried to get her help.
Anonymous:
Last post was Unita staff.
You're not fooling anyone, seriously.
Anonymous:
Not sure how to convince you...or why I need to. Hopefully my message will resonate with other parents out there. I don't know why you are cynical. I think my previous message accurately represented our family's experience so far with the program. It has been a difficult road for us and our daughter. We, fortunately, are all on the same path now and are optimistic about our family's future.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "we got our daughter back...." ---Our daughter has embraced the target skills and comes to each therapy session with thoughtful analysis.
--- End quote ---
Ok, specific questions: just exactly what are the "target skills" your daughter is embracing? In what way have they helped her? Do you participate in the therapy or are you being told that she is coming to "each therapy session with thoughtful analysis"? How exactly do you know this an finally while your daughter is there are you or the family in therapy to examine issues relating to the situation that caused her to be placed?
Anonymous:
In each phase of the program she works w/ her therapist (and us) to define her target skills. She just changed to three new ones i.e. showing empathy for others. We talk to her socially a few times a week for 15 minutes. We talk to her therapist alone and then include her for 60 minutes a week. We get a written academic progress report monthly. It is a self paced on-line program through BYU. We have visited her in Utah and she had her first home visit. We see the progress then and she discusses it each week in therapy. The preparation she brings to therapy is examples of what happened to her during the week and how she felt/handled it/or what it meant to her. The topics in therapy center on the reasons for her 'downfall' as well as how she will cope after she graduates. Not sure I understand your last sentence/question. Maybe you were in the middle of an edit when you hit sent.
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