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Aspen Education Group deceptively markets short term invalid
Whooter:
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I found some references to her at youth care in Caferty but it was hearsay as far as I could tell from reading it. But nothing tieing her to Aspen. I am sure she has background experience in the residential treatment area, but this wouldnt disqualify her firm from doing work for them or a conflict of interest.
RMA Survivor:
I think the issue is that the industry is so incestuous to begin with that it is assumed they are using people with ties to the industry itself to make evaluations. A person who is an industry consultant is not independent. It would be far better to use a research firm with no ties whatsoever to the industry.
Additionally the issue people brought up is the weakness of the study. There is no comparison made to other facilities which claim to offer the same cures. No treatment center in the world claims an 80% success rate yet people are to take at face value that a "study" in which inmates were asked just a couple of weeks after arriving, how their non-treatment program is working for them? Or were they not asked? Who did the evaluations and in what form did they take? A twenty question survey? If I was sent to prison for two years and the warden calls me in to his office a week in to my stay and asks me if I feel I have learned my lesson and if I am ready to return to normal society...? My answer would be, yes! Ask me again in three months, my answer would not change. Call me up a year after I got out and ask me if I have been breaking the law at all, my answer is no. Asked if I planned to return to a life of crime? No. This would not be a strong or accurate research method for determining whether prisoners are going to be recidivist or not.
And in this research, were the students themselves observed directly or was this all done over the phone or through the mail? Or did they just survey the staff to get the answers they were looking for? And the fact that students who didn't complete the program are not included shines a glaring light on the fact they were not wanting to interview those they already knew had failed. 170 students? Why not all of them? Don't they have contact information for more than 170? Seems like a tiny sampling considering Aspen has been around more than a decade. Why go with 12 months as the cap and not longer periods unless you know or suspect that a longer time frame will bring different responses?
The study is clearly bogus, based on such limited criteria so as to guarantee a higher success rate. And I don't think parents are wanting to know if their kid will survive a year. They want to know if their child will be normal and able to function for a lifetime. So this is not helpful to parents either. Parents know kids can fake it, certainly for a year. Such nonsense.
Anonymous:
As usual, John D. Reuben, you're driven to defend Aspen Education Group, killers of your kid, but too stupid to do so competently. Likewise, you were too stupid to do anything but kill your son, Michael. Do you even miss him, John?
So, here's the first of the connections to Aspen Education group
--- Quote from: "SUWS wilderness program of the Carolinas abduction, torture and forced march group" --- Research conducted by KEITH RUSSELL, PH.D.,
OUTDOOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE RESEARCH COOPERATIVE
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The Outdoor behavioral healthcare research cooperative was founded by aspen to give torture and cultic abuse legitamcy
--- Quote from: "Outdoor behavioral healthcare research cooperative propaganda machine for the legitimization of thought reform" ---The Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Industry Council (OBHIC) was founded in 1997 when representatives from a handful of wilderness treatment programs joined to collaborate and to share best practices. The founding programs realized the advantage of uniting to promote program standards and excellence and thus OBHIC was founded.
Today, the organization and its member programs have been instrumental in raising the bar for wilderness treatment, facilitating research on the efficacy of wilderness treatment for adolescents, and in promoting the industry.
OBHIC FOUNDING MEMBER PROGRAMS:
• Anasazi Foundation
• Aspen Education Group
• Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Programs
• RedCliff Ascent
• SUWS
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--- Quote from: "keith c Russell" corrupt torture propagandist" --- Keith C. Russell, Ph.D.
Director Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative (OBHRC)
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Anonymous:
More about Aspen Education group's 'survey':
--- Quote from: "aspen education group" ---NOTE: This is an ASPEN EDUCATION GROUP funded study. Dr. Behrens is a former employee of an Aspen school - information left undisclosed by Dr. Behrens.
Contacts:
Lisa Freeman
Jan Moss
Kevin/Ross Public Relations NATSAP
818-597-8453 928-443-9505
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Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "RMA Survivor" ---I think the issue is that the industry is so incestuous to begin with that it is assumed they are using people with ties to the industry itself to make evaluations. A person who is an industry consultant is not independent. It would be far better to use a research firm with no ties whatsoever to the industry.
Additionally the issue people brought up is the weakness of the study. There is no comparison made to other facilities which claim to offer the same cures. No treatment center in the world claims an 80% success rate yet people are to take at face value that a "study" in which inmates were asked just a couple of weeks after arriving, how their non-treatment program is working for them? Or were they not asked? Who did the evaluations and in what form did they take? A twenty question survey? If I was sent to prison for two years and the warden calls me in to his office a week in to my stay and asks me if I feel I have learned my lesson and if I am ready to return to normal society...? My answer would be, yes! Ask me again in three months, my answer would not change. Call me up a year after I got out and ask me if I have been breaking the law at all, my answer is no. Asked if I planned to return to a life of crime? No. This would not be a strong or accurate research method for determining whether prisoners are going to be recidivist or not.
And in this research, were the students themselves observed directly or was this all done over the phone or through the mail? Or did they just survey the staff to get the answers they were looking for? And the fact that students who didn't complete the program are not included shines a glaring light on the fact they were not wanting to interview those they already knew had failed. 170 students? Why not all of them? Don't they have contact information for more than 170? Seems like a tiny sampling considering Aspen has been around more than a decade. Why go with 12 months as the cap and not longer periods unless you know or suspect that a longer time frame will bring different responses?
The study is clearly bogus, based on such limited criteria so as to guarantee a higher success rate. And I don't think parents are wanting to know if their kid will survive a year. They want to know if their child will be normal and able to function for a lifetime. So this is not helpful to parents either. Parents know kids can fake it, certainly for a year. Such nonsense.
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Please don't even call it a "study" at best its a survey. And there are so many failings with this as a survey its hard to know where to begin, though the fact the detainees who are forced to endure the "treatment" are not interviewed, just the detainees who "graduate" is one of the more glaring ones.
What I find frightening is that Aspen ed seems to have set up two consulting groups, Canyon and Outdoor behavioral health with the intention of creating pseudo-"studies" like the one above. This one has been around since 2006, I guess John Reuben happened to bump into it while he was fingering himself to thoughts of his son dying.
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