When I worked at BCA, there were 5 therapist at BCA - they all hated the program, did everything they could to soften the trauma for the kids AND WE WERE ALL LICENSED CLINICALLY AND HIGHLY QUALIFIED. CEDU LIES. Nevertheless, licensing is not even the real issue. The real issue is ethics. Linda Daggy and Ulrich have little in the way of ethics, and almost everything they do is for prestege and especially money. Daggy isn't a great therapist - but not bad, Stanton is great. North Idaho Behavioral Health is exactly what the kids below state. It is a place to drug kids so they will be conformist robots who are easy to control.
I would also like to clear something up. People come in many shades of grey and many temperments. When they are too extreme or a danger to themselves or others, drugs can be helpful, but for the most part, drugs are used by the culture to create social robots that don't bother anyone or upset the social/economic status quo. CEDU is an institution of social control and brainwashing designed (by the mormon church) since Mel sold out (and he was a megalomaniac asshole) to create people who do not question, do not think, and are easy to control. See the the website
http://mormonconspiracy/brainwashing/html. This might be the right spelling/code - if not right search the words. That both CEDU and NIBH are brainwashing camps is a simple truth that cannot be disputed. If you disagree - so what? CEDU will fall no matter what you say because it is dark and evil. Finally, MR was and is a licensed LCSW, and is one of the most cutting edge therapists in the country. He was not fired - he resigned because he would not condone daily violations of state Residential Treatment Center Laws, and daily child abuse violations. When anyone at CEDU gives notice that they are leaving, they are slandered, harassed by human resourses, and led out immediately so that their words about what really goes on will not be taken as credable. MR's "rantings" were true, and many of the parents pulled their kids while others stood up and complained about how CEDU treated MR and lost him as their child's advocate at the parent conference. Basically, MR was praised publically and CEDU was condemned publically by the parents at that conference. It was a disaster for CEDU and an honor for MR. He is an activist for many causes human rights, environmental protection, elder law, and teen rights - see his website
http://www.markrist.com (I know him and just maybe I am him) and if you don't like that it is because you are probably a victim of a cult. Few at Boulder Creek Academy, Rocky Mountain Academy and Northwest Academy are good people, but some are very good - most of the therapists (and they would not be there and take that abuse except to protect their kids) and some of the staff are good. Nevertheless most of the good ones are quickly detected and run out as soon as it is discovered that they are real, and they really care to protect kids from abusive and illegal practices.