These are the fundamental questions that teens arrive at on their own, often while they are still in the programs.
An individual's impression of events as they unfold help to tell the story up to any given point. People are complex and come up with all sorts of reasons to explain how they could wind up in any of their given circumstances. They may blame a mother, a father, the fact they were adopted, a step parent, a real life physical or sexual abuse incident or relationship, anything including themselves.
The programs' function is to exploit these causes and create a faux bond with the child that is through repeated coercive tactics rewarded for bonding with the program and staying put (the parent's wish).
There is much at play in the mind of an adolescent who has been sent to a facility that bills itself in the way behavior modification schools, or troubled teen bootcamp type places do. Things twist in his head, and there are all sorts of reasons why they may not spend the time and energy diving back into the most troublesome and powerless time of their lives ten years later...you see what I'm saying?
People are harmed when you make them do and say and think things that are contrary to their own individual nature. Many become accustomed to discomfort and think it's the norm, you need to take so many things into consideration in the broad swipe of whether these programs do good or harm or both. Situationally speaking, the parents and existing system has already failed these kids. Why should the step which often fundamentally changes (damages. I'll say it again: damages) some kids forever really be any different?
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