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CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks / Re: Group Therapy At CALO
« on: January 28, 2014, 08:07:25 PM »
I was at CALO. That actually did happen.
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CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks / Re: CALO CALO CALO
« on: January 28, 2014, 08:05:13 PM »
As a former CALO student, I have a story to add -
One girl had her wrists broken many times by a specific staff, and each time it happened, they would make it a "therapeutic goal" to understand that the staff was in the right, and she was in the wrong.
One girl had her wrists broken many times by a specific staff, and each time it happened, they would make it a "therapeutic goal" to understand that the staff was in the right, and she was in the wrong.
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CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks / Re: CALO gets smacked with lawsuit
« on: January 28, 2014, 08:00:57 PM »
Wait, so what exactly happened? Do you have any details on why the former academic director is suing CALO?
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CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks / Re: Why the bashing? What is an alternative?
« on: January 28, 2014, 07:59:15 PM »
As a former CALO student, I agree with some things that have been said on this thread, and disagree with others. I think that CALO is a treatment center with good intentions, but awful execution. There are a lot of things that go on that you probably don't know, but part of CALO's "thing" is this underlying emotional manipulation that you don't realize until after you're gone. They mold your mind - make you think differently, not necessarily in positive ways. You become a parrot.
I think that for actual, physical dangers - like self harm - CALO can help, in that it can physically stop you from self harming. However, that's honestly not a tough thing to do. Emotionally, CALO is quite lacking. I don't have much time to go into detail, but there has been a pattern at CALO of students doing phenomenally well (seemingly) before and when they leave, and slipping deeper than before they arrived as time goes on. However, CALO doesn't track long-term effects. If it does, it does not make widespread results open to the public.
I think that for actual, physical dangers - like self harm - CALO can help, in that it can physically stop you from self harming. However, that's honestly not a tough thing to do. Emotionally, CALO is quite lacking. I don't have much time to go into detail, but there has been a pattern at CALO of students doing phenomenally well (seemingly) before and when they leave, and slipping deeper than before they arrived as time goes on. However, CALO doesn't track long-term effects. If it does, it does not make widespread results open to the public.
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CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks / Re: CALO's lawsuits falling off one by one?
« on: January 28, 2014, 07:54:16 PM »
What's with CALO vs. Burnett? I'm a past CALO student and have never heard of this. I can't find it online, either. May I have details?
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: Proficio
« on: January 27, 2014, 01:06:28 AM »
As a past CALO student, I can tell you from experience and research that CALO has links to not only West Ridge Academy and Provo Canyon, but also to Hidden Lake Academy/Ridge Creek School, all residential treatment facilities that have faced abuse allegations. While reading about West Ridge, Provo Canyon, and Hidden Lake, I noticed many similarities between things that went on there, and things that happened at CALO.
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