Well,
Thanks for the help in disseminating my case. You can indeed be enlightened. About 10 years ago a kid hung himself at RMA. They decided after that, that their liability would be reduced on such issues as suicide and homicide (as in the Riot at NWA) if they brought a therapist on board. They brought in this Guy, a PHD ****d Roy who tried to explain to the staff that certain kids had to be treated differently i.e. You couldn't just yell at kids with anxiety problems, you couldn't just have depressed kids doing writing assignments about how terrible they are, you couldn't put kids with broken arms (broken by staff while trying to escape verbal abuse in a Rap) on work assignments to re break their arm and continue to work with a broken arm. After 10 years they still listened to him, but largely ignored his advice.
When the State kept coming down on RMA BCA and NWA, because of charges or rape, sexual, verbal, abuse and racketeering, 9as cited in Spokesman Review articles on ?teen liberty.org. therapists began to be hired and worked at all the schools in a "Clinical Services Department" that billed the parents $120.00 for each therapy session.
Now each school has a clinical services department, each with up to 6 therapists to handle the consequences of the abusive treatment. When the program and staff drives a kid to be homicidal or suicidal, a therapist will be asked to repair the damage, failing that we contacted Dr Ulrich -the psychiatrist.
Dr Ulrich would give final approval if hospitalization was warranted. As he owned a private practice, handled the psychiatric needs of all the kids at the local CEDU schools, and was he Vice President of the Mental Hospital - NIBH (North Idaho Behavioral Health; he had a unique conflict of interest that was very profitable.
If the kids could be drugged enough to stand the CEDU schools, then they could be evaluated at NIBH and stay there for a long time at about a thousand dollars a day. then when they were drugged enough to come back to a CEDU school in North Idaho and survive the mental torture, he would see the kids weekly, at around 150 a pop for about 10 minutes, and often they would then be transported down to NIBH (at a high cost to parents) to see his therapists in Coeur d'Alene.
He would make money in three areas by being the psychotropic dealer and getting influence and financial gain in his practice, at CEDU and at the hospital called NIBH.
Regarding the therapy I used. It was multi-facetted - Cognitive, Lazerian, Rogerian Relational, Systems Work in Minuchin Structural Family Therapy and Whittakerian Family Psychodrama and Postmodern methods such as Narrative and Solution Based processes as developed by Kim Berg, Selikman, Duncan et al. I am mostly a Carl Rogers man ? I focus on the relationship and providing ?unconditional positive regard.? Consequently, often I just provided a safe and nurturing place for boys and girls to escape the cultish crazy-making tyranny of the program and power hungry untrained staff. Like others before me - I left when my physical and psychological life was on the line from experiencing the torture and treachery of me and the kids.
Adequate illumination?
Light
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Unregistered User Posted: 2004-03-16 09:39:00
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Gosh, any way we can get an answer to the question about whether a boy committed suicide or not at one of these programs mentioned?
