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To All Parents: This Concerns You

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TheWho:

--- Quote from: "along comes mary" ---This quote is from a staff member who recently left HLA :


--- Quote from: "ham" ---I have been an employee at HLA and have seen the negative side of the organization. I am very upset with their ethics and way of handling  business. As a therapist within the organization, I would never sent my child there and I hope you take my advice. There are many ethics and state ethics boards that need to need to be in accordance with regulations. I have work with many children and adolescence and I can tell you from my experience that I would not recommend sending my children to HLA. If any more questions arise just contact me.
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Ham went on to say:

--- Quote from: "ham" ---....in actuality (only) 50 to more percent of what they (kids) told their parents was true.
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Anonymous:
i have also developed anxiety disorders as a result of my stay at HLA. the stress of being not being in charge of your own life, being punished at anyones whim made me like a high tension wire. While there, there is no telling if after school youll be playing guitar or being yelled at whilst doing 100+ push ups in the rain. that "unknown" trained my body in a very skinnerian way to be nervous, all the time. the slightest indication of trouble (such as seeing a cop in my rearview, even when im not doing anything wrong) i get a huge adrenaline rush and my stomach starts rotting away. it's like "a clockwork orange". This is something which was developed completely as a result of hidden lake; i didnt have it before, it started at HLA and continued through now (5 years later).

more later.

Ursus:
From Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death, by Martin E. P. Seligman (W.H. Freeman and Company, New York ©1975), pp. 22-23:

Laboratory evidence shows that when an organism has experienced trauma it cannot control, its motivation to respond in the face of later trauma wanes. Moreover, even if it does respond, and the response succeeds in producing relief, it has trouble learning, perceiving, and believing that the response worked. Finally, its emotional balance is disturbed: depression and anxiety, measured in various ways, predominate. The motivational deficits produced by helplessness are in many ways the most striking...[/list]

Seligman's premise is that this learned helplessness is the direct result of experiencing trauma that is out of our control (as distinct from trauma experienced within our control). (I would further postulate that trauma suffered via "Acts of God" rates far lower than trauma perpetrated by other sentient beings.). Said learned helplessness ends up "sap[ping] the motivation to initiate future responses," "disrupts the ability to learn," and "produces emotional disturbance."

along comes mary:

--- Quote from: "guest" ---
--- Quote from: "along comes mary" ---This quote is from a staff member who recently left HLA :


--- Quote from: "ham" ---I have been an employee at HLA and have seen the negative side of the organization. I am very upset with their ethics and way of handling  business. As a therapist within the organization, I would never sent my child there and I hope you take my advice. There are many ethics and state ethics boards that need to need to be in accordance with regulations. I have work with many children and adolescence and I can tell you from my experience that I would not recommend sending my children to HLA. If any more questions arise just contact me.
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Ham went on to say:

--- Quote from: "ham" ---....in actuality (only) 50 to more percent of what they (kids) told their parents was true.
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That quote is out of context and misleading.

Your interjection of "(only)" into the quote doesn't make sense in the actual context of the post.
 
I can only assume you chose that sentence because it would make parents distrust their children's explanations of HLA life. You seem to have an agenda here.

The FULL and UNEDITED quote is as follows:



--- Quote from: "ham" ---I have been reading through all of the forum's on this website about HLA and I agree with most of what I have seen. I am a recent employee, and only lasted a month. In the beginning and throughout the interview process, the management/administration portrayed the school as an amazing place to work with great opportunities. At the time I began, the school was trying to go through some new therapeutic changes. Unfortunately, they were not very good therapeutic changes. Within the first two weeks, they had fired the one peer counselor that had been working with one of the peer groups for about a month, and threw the group and individual work on my shoulders (only being their about 2 weeks). They had very disgruntled parents because student were acting up due to all of the sudden changes, and their words were "you deal with the parents and kids, they are your responsibility, and smother the parents with attention." Every time I tried to make decisions therapeutically which I felt were appropriate, the administration were constantly made decisions over top of me without even knowing the children or how they had been progressing through the program.

Their was many other issues that I had felt were on the fence of being unethical. When monitoring student phone calls, we had to watch for what they called "manipulation." They always believed that when children told the parents negative things or about when negative things were happening at the school that the parents should be told the kids were lying. So it was always the responsibility of someone to call the parents back to tell those parents that their children were lying about what they had just told their parents and the school is great. The children were just lying to try and come home, which is normal; when in actuality 50 to more percent of what they told their parents was true. Also, the school has many of the counselors in dual-roles, which crosses a therapeutic line. When providing group and individual therapy, many of these students are working on and talking about difficult and emotional issues. They would have counselors many times work in different departments, most usually recreation department. One responsibility of the rec. dept. when student come back from breaks is to strip search the students, which I found highly unethical. It would be hard to imagine any student being searched by their therapist in that way, then coming into their office to talk openly about difficult subjects knowing that therapist saw them naked. There is much more I could talk about, but for now this is what I am posting. I am going back and forth in my head about what I can do to report some of what I feel are ethical violations and violations against the students. Also, when the parents of the students I had been working with knew I left, they asked why and inquired about if their was something they needed to know about HLA to pull their son. I am wondering if I have the authority to tell them. Any advice would help.
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In the future, "Guest," please don't manipulate other people's words. It makes you look dishonest.

Thanks,
Mary

Anonymous:
Mary thank you for pointing out that individuals are trying to use my quotes to a dishonest level. I am opening up and stating these things about HLA because I started in the field of Psychology to better individuals' lives and do everything I can. I left HLA because I knew that I was not able to do my job to the fullest degree that I felt was adequate and appropriate of someone in my position. I did not accept multiple degrees from prestigious schools to rob parents and children/adolescents of the rightful treatment they deserve.

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