I found this webpage doing a search for Shady Brook Residential Treatment Center and WOW, a few memories come roaring back. Like Dr. Looney (I was put in Shady Brook for about 1 1/2 years before I got kicked out for smoking pot.....(Fall 77 to Spring 79) well, there is obviously more to the story but it was more of what I knew than anything else I did-okay - I found out about an affair going on).
I felt like this was a place rich people dumped their problem kids off at. Granted, I was also seeing the uprising of these horrible military youth camps and was quite thankful I was not at one of those places, I mean even my parents thought those places were cruel. Years later my parents apologized for what they had subjected me to in the first place (mental hospitals, Shady Brook, foster parents, etc.).
Many of these same camps have turned into Christian, Jesus converting camps for the problem child. Still concerns me.
I am familiar with the father and his son in the video. I remember hearing it on the News and thinking, "Why would anyone put their poor child through that?" Those camps are more about adults who want to control kids, IMO, bullies you might say, in the name of what? Certainly not help.