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Proficio
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---What Your Child May Do
Typically your child will be uncomfortable or in denial as to the reasons he/she is here. He/she may try several types of manipulation to get your attention and to help himself/herself cope. Usually, these are the same manipulative or coping behaviors he/she used with you in the past. It is our goal to change those negative behaviors so your child can function appropriately in society. You may see the following attempts at manipulation:
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* Triangulation/Splitting. Example: Your child gets you alone and tells you about the mean things staff members are saying to him/her.
This is where your child will try to split one parent against the therapist or the other parent to get his/her way. The child's goal is to dismantle those who are holding him/her accountable for his/her actions. Your child may even say, "Don't tell the therapist because I will get into trouble." The more united we are, the more effective the treatment and program will be.
* Fear Factor. Example: "All my roommates are drug addicts or gay." "I am not as bad as everyone else here." "The staff beats up the students." "The food isn't nutritious." "The school isn't very good." This is probably the most subtle and commonly used tool. If your child uses this technique, his/her goal is to split us. Your child is playing upon your fears to attempt to change the outcome. Your child wants West Ridge Academy to become the bad guy. If you have concerns, please check them out with your therapist in a way that continues to support the therapy we are doing. Fears are normal but usually based on false evidence. Never let your child see you challenge staff or West Ridge as a whole. Always bring your concerns to us outside of your child's presence.
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wtf?? this is posted on the West Ridge website
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---* Fear Factor. Example: "All my roommates are drug addicts or gay." "I am not as bad as everyone else here." "The staff beats up the students." "The food isn't nutritious." "The school isn't very good." This is probably the most subtle and commonly used tool. If your child uses this technique, his/her goal is to split us. Your child is playing upon your fears to attempt to change the outcome. Your child wants West Ridge Academy to become the bad guy. If you have concerns, please check them out with your therapist in a way that continues to support the therapy we are doing. Fears are normal but usually based on false evidence. Never let your child see you challenge staff or West Ridge as a whole. Always bring your concerns to us outside of your child's presence.
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Translation = Homosexuals are the enemy and evil human beings.
Senator Buttars :fuckoff:
Anonymous:
Kimball DeLaMare, LCSW
Vice President
Is this the same Kim DeLaMare associated with Miller Newton and Kids in the 1980's who trained in New Jersey and then opened the Kids satellite in Utah?
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "interested observer" ---Kimball DeLaMare, LCSW
Vice President
Is this the same Kim DeLaMare associated with Miller Newton and Kids in the 1980's who trained in New Jersey and then opened the Kids satellite in Utah?
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I would say yes. I am still looking for something which actually links KIDS of Salt Lake City and his more recent work within the same document, but haven't found that yet.
DeLaMare claims to have worked with "troubled youth" since 1979. He would appear to be some kind of a "start-up guy": starts up programs, hands over the reigns to someone else, and then goes on to start up more programs. The following are all undeniably interlinked (I'm sure there are quite a few more):
2007 - VP at Proficio Management
2006 - Co-Founder, Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment
1999 - Co-Founder and one of the original Directors of NATSAP
1998 - Co-Founder, Oakley School
1994 - Co-Founder, Island View Residential Treatment Center
Ursus:
Here's an old newspaper article from the Free Lance-Star (vol. 105, no. 263) out of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Aside from the Kimball DeLaMare issue, there are a couple other items of interest, namely:
1.) Ken Stettler has been aware of program abuse for at least 20 years (yet still claims ignorance).2.) There was at least one other Utah program/director familiar with Miller Newton's version of Straight methodology, i.e., Proctor Advocate/Layne Meacham. Newton must have had quite a sideline of training future program directors![/list]
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WED. Nov. 8, 1989
The Free Lance-Star
'Tough love' may be child abuse
By Mike Carter
Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Matt Woolston's five weeks of drug treatment were spent mostly in a windowless room on a blue plastic chair.
"They wouldn't let you lean back. You had to sit forward with your back straight," often for up to 15 hours at a time, six days a week, and "rap" about personal problems, he said. He didn't see the sun for days at a time.
Woolston, 20, was held for 38 days after his parents placed him in KIDS of Greater Salt Lake, a drug and alcohol treatment program. He said he was coerced into going and was rescued only after friends followed a van heading to the "host home" where he was being held and called police.
Woolston's 19-year-old sister, Jennifer, has filed a $6.5 million lawsuit against KIDS, claiming she was held against her will. She says she escaped once by climbing down knotted bedsheets, was returned by her parents and a man with a badge who claimed to be a policeman, and broke an arm and a leg in a second attempt.
Police are investigating allegations of false imprisonment, unlawful detention and assault. The allegations are similar to those that closed KIDS of Southern California and KIDS of El Paso, Texas, earlier this year.
W. Kimball DeLaMare, director of the Utah KIDS, acknowledges that treatment can be severe. But so are the ravages of compulsive behavior, he says.
"We're not in the business to make money. We invite people to come in here. Our motive is to help kids get straight and live successful lives and develop coping skills . . . We want to give kids back to their parents."
KIDS is the third Utah "tough love" program to be investigated in a year. State officials worry Utah is becoming a mecca for unorthodox treatment centers that prey on desperate parents and use poorly trained "peer counselors."
"The parents want an answer and prevention, even an inoculation for these behaviors," said Wayne Holland, a Division of Youth Corrections investigator who believes Utah's religious and cultural background "tend to allow these non-traditional groups to fill that need."
It isn't unusual for parents to place children in a long-term program, which may take 18 months or more, for smoking cigarettes or having sex. Without proper admitting procedures involving professionals, too often kids who don't really need the treatment end up there, Holland said.
"A lot of times these kinds of programs promise miracles, and when they can't deliver they turn abusive," said Patricia Kreher, director of licensing for the Department of Social Services.
Another group, the Challenger Foundation, is fighting for its license after 17-year-old Elizabeth Zasso claims she was kidnapped into a 63-day wilderness experience aimed at character-building. A judge ruled that her constitutional rights were violated and she filed a $20 million lawsuit. The Garfield County Attorney has filed misdemeanor child abuse and witness-tampering charges.
And Proctor Advocate founder Layne Meacham faces charges he permitted the abuse of a 16-year-old girl by peer counselors. Meacham has testified he based his program partly on the teachings of the founder of KIDS.
KIDS in Utah is the non-profit progeny of KIDS of Bergen County, N.J., the subject of abuse allegations since it opened in 1984. KIDS now operates only in New Jersey, which has no licensing requirements, and Utah.
The three-month-old Utah program's conditional license has been extended to Jan. 31, and the state is awaiting the outcome of Jennifer Woolston's lawsuit and others contemplated by former patients, said Social Services' Ken Stettler.
Jennifer and Matt Woolston were put into KIDS by their parents. Jennifer and her attorney, Mary Corporon, say the reasons for her placement are unknown. Matt was placed into the 18-month program for drug treatment.
Because of the litigation, their mother, Marilyn Woolston, had no other comment but: "We feel real positive about it, and feel that it is very beneficial to the kids. Even Matt would tell you how he benefited."
DeLaMare said patients don't always know what's best and that parents have the right to intervene in a life out of control, even an adult child's. Adult patients sign a contract and can leave on 24 hours' written notice, he said.
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