Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Aspen Education Group
My son at Aspen Ranch
psy:
Yeah. He did admit his daughter now refuses to talk to him.
TheWho:
--- Quote from: "Guest" ---Hey Nigel,
I just want to fill in a few facts that the poster (known as TheWho) is leaving out of his 'story' he's telling you.
1. He never had a child at Aspen Ranch. Never. So he's trying to lead you to belive he did, but he didn't. He's known here as a liar.
2. He claims his daughter went 'back to the books' but she actually dropped out of school as soon as she couls when she got home.
3. He claims she 'blossomed like a flower' but she actually went directly back to hardcore drug and alcohol abuse within a few days of coming home.
4. He claims her program helped reunite his family, but his daughter actually estranged herself from him as soon as she came home.
5. He claims she's now successful, but she's a marginally employed highschool dropout living with a drug addict boyfriend out of wedlock.
Just thought you should know the truth about the guy advising you and what he claims is 'success.' You should also know he runs a feeder referral service for AEG.
Cheers,
Longtime Poster with Knowledge about TheWho
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Seems someone is tiny bit upset that Nigels son is getting the help he needs like most of the other kids there (you are so hoping that he will fail). Time to bring out the guns and start discrediting any poster who says anything positive about Aspen Ranch. Sorry that you cannot contribute to the conversation and can only insert lies or beat up any poster who has a differing opinion. Not cool. Lets keep the posts honest or supply links to back up your posts!!!
Welcome to the open forum everyone!!
NIGEL:
He was escorted there. As I said, he had told us that he would kill us if we tried to "ship him out" . I was very worried about this process and what it might do to our relationship in the future. I contacted an escort service. I walked in to his room at 7 am and told him I loved him. I quickly told him that his mother and I felt like this was the only thing we could do to save his life. The two escorts then spent 45 minutes in his room with him describing what was going to happen over the rest of the day. They explained that he could come quietly or they could restrain him, but either way he was going to go. My son went quietly and cooperatively. I thought they did a very professional Job in a compassionate way. Since this time, I have talked to my son and he knows why I did what I did. I told him that I felt like I needed to lie to him and I explained that I only did it to save his life. He agrees with me that he wouldn't have gone voluntarily and that he knows he was messed up.
My biggest concern now is knowing when it is right to bring him home. He wants to come home asap. I want to bring him home when I know he is ready (there is no easy way to make sure you are doing it at the right time). I will continue to evaluate.
I am thankful that there is a forum where I can hear both sides. I don't believe everything I read, but I am open minded enough to realize that there is abuse in some programs (there is mental and physical abuse in our schools throughout the world as well), and I am paying close attention to everything that is going on. I will continue to assess and I will let you all know how things are going.
TheWho:
--- Quote from: "psy" ---
LOL. Well I guess you'll find out if he gets home and you don't' end up killed in your sleep. Seriously, though. Especially if he was escorted there you'll have to consider the possibility that he'll actually be afraid of you... scared into good behavior. I'm not sure ruling through fear is a good parenting style.
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Scare tactics isn’t nice Psy. His son will learn and grow during his time there and will work through all those issues with his therapist and eventually with his therapist and family. If there are trust issues they will get addressed. In fact Nigel may consider bringing this up himself to the therapist at some point down the road. Everything gets put on the table. Thats one of the strengths of these places. The transition back home is one of the critical stages and a lot needs to be worked out between the parents and child to insure the child has a safe environment to return to. One where he feels safe to talk to the parents about anything and wont be judged for making mistakes. The program will prepare him and the parents need to be ready to handle the childs transition back home. But if the child returns home too early then it could all fall apart fairly quickly. The parents need to listen to the therapist and get to know the childs staff members also and get a good feel for how their son is doing in their eyes as well.
2 months is a little premature to tell but it seems to be going very well for them.
Anonymous:
Thanks for the heads-up on the who. I searched his posts and found that all those things are things he said, but he seemsw to change his story a lot and pretend to be all different people. I definitely wouldn't trust anything he says. He just lies too much.
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