Listen, you seem to give a hoot, but the fact is that CEDU propagates highly unethical theraputic practices. One is simply that they lie to or manipulate parents by exaggerating the problems of many children--or even creating them where none exist. For example, I experimented with drugs prior to CEDU. Also prior to CEDU, I easily gave it up--wasn't my thing. Drugs were not the reason I went there. Once my family head heard I had some drug experiences, he rewrote history to make me a drug addict and used that as a tool to instill fear in my parents. He had copped out to his own drug addiction and maybe he thinks anyone who tried it is an addict. Whatever, this fake issue meant we never dealt with any real ones.
I also did not appreciate being blown in raps for things that never happened; I don't know if staff just got confused or whatever, but again, it prevented anyone from dealing with any real issues. I hated that they decided a script for you and that was it. I also hated being accused of lying. I was not a liar before I went to cEDU and I was not one afterward. YOu ask me a direct question, I'll give you a direct answer, consequences be damned. I don't know if the fact that CEDU treated all kids as liars was a result of many being tainted by a few or what.
Last, raps were often overemotional about trivial crap like one of the staff members wearing pink bows in her hair, but also encouraged bullying and verbal abuse over direct, straight talk. Do you think it helps a rape victim, or even someone who is promiscuous if they are told they are tramps, unworthy, with legs spread out to the world? What about all the kids who lied or exaggerated their sex/drugs lives after being relentlessly badgered to tell the truth about stuff that never happened? What about the black girl who was called a nigger? Is it OK that teenaged girls sat on grown men's laps and a female staff member groped guys' asses? Do we really need to hear about staff smearing fecal matter all over themselves and jerking off in milk cartons, or having sex w/animals? Ever hear of therapeutic boundaries?
How about all the arbitrary bans, cult lingo, rabid insularity? Even the kids who say CEDU is the best have told me they had a very difficult time relating to the outside world when they got out. Don't you think the propheets are just extended periods of intense mind fucking that changes your psyche permanently?
Also, did they really "treat" ANYTHING while you were there? Are kids with anxiety, ADHD, Oppositionalism, or bipolar best placed in an environment that promotes loud abusive confrontation "therapy." How about targeting low self esteem? Is low self esteem fixed by calling people names, telling them they suck, or there parents don't want/love them?
No.
The therapy begins after going through CEDU.
