in all probability, if this weren't imaginary, the severity and duration of the beating coupled that the forced nudity this would be considered an act of abuse.
If it were done in a gulag it would be considered therapy.
I sort of go along with this. It is up to individual interpretation or a result of which group you follow or subscribe to. Some would call it therapy others abuse and still others would call it discipline.
No. Luckily, there are clinical standards specifying what qualifies as therapy.
What a laymen's opinion on what is “therapeutic” has no bearing on that.
I disagree, the individual or family has the final say on whether they feel it is therapuetic, abuse or discipline.
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but no "family" has the "final say" about what contitutes medical care.
No "family" has "final say" over what constitutes physical abuse, either. The final say comes from juries of their peers. The secondary say comes from D.A.s. Forcing a teenager to strip naked so you beat her/him with various objects for 30 minutes(over your lap for 15, ew) would fall under the mantle of an abusive act, legally speaking, whatever your "opinion" on it. The forced nudity, duration of the beating, the mature age of your fictional youth, the use of objects situate the act outside of the grey area of "acceptable" spanking
Because this imaginary 13 year old you have created is meant to justify nude beatings in program, let's be clear:
"The American Psychological Association believes that the use of physical punishment in institutions that care for children is unlikely to improve problem behavior and poses the risk of significant negative side-effects including poor self-esteem, hostility, and a greater tendency to use physical aggression.[28]"
So there ya go. Not "treatment."
http://www.rickross.com/reference/house/house23.htmlhttp://www.ylc.org/articleDetail.php?id=76&type=articleInteresting exerpt from an article for you, who. Your claim that "parents" decide what is abuse, let alone medical treatment is a pathology that is singled as one of the reasons children are abused.
http://www.ylc.org/articleDetail.php?id=76&type=article"Hutchinson (the D.A.)said residents are reluctant to call authorities in such cases because of a strong belief that it's wrong to interfere in the way other parents treat their children. They "feel that children, no matter what, are really the province of the mother and everything they do is their right and their business," he said. "Someone hears a child screaming, they're not going to say anything because their thinking is that's their child, that's their business.""
