Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
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Che Gookin:
The other person to contact, Blombrowski, I'm fairly certain his field ties into this sort of thing and might have useful advice based on actual experience.
Didn't Oscar send you the group link?
none-ya:
Searched all over fb and found nothing
blombrowski:
While I'm sure the adolescent treatment facility is more steeped in the philosophies of NATSAP members, as far as your friend goes, I'm guessing he's going to experience a fairly typical adult psychiatric hospital with follow-up day programming at La Amistad's outpatient programs.
none-ya:
I believe he's not going to be an out patient.
blombrowski:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but typically an involuntary hospitalization is only allowed for up to 72 hours in Florida. I can imagine that your friend is likely to be placed in a position where he's involuntarily hospitalized, and then discharged to outpatient treatment coerced under the threat of rehospitalization. So no, he wouldn't be immediately placed in outpatient care, but if it's the insurance company that's going to pay for hospitalization, he's not going to be hospitalized that long, and as La Amistad has the full range of psychiatric services, I imagine they will self-refer to their outpatient clinic/day treatment program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Mental_Health_Act
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