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Aspen Education Group / My son is currently at Aspen Ranch
« on: July 01, 2006, 05:22:00 AM »
Aspen Ranch was about 6 thousand dollars a month. We had three different therapist in four months.  Most of the interaction is with untrained folks who watch the kids in their cottages.  I brought my teen home.  I thought is seemed like punishment for her problems.  The day we came home she got back on cocaine.  We delt with it as a family problem and sought professionals in the community to help.  Make your choices on your gut feelings as a parent.  You know your own child.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Wilderness programs and TBS
« on: June 30, 2006, 01:15:00 AM »
thank you

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Wilderness programs and TBS
« on: June 30, 2006, 01:05:00 AM »
:lol: I am glad there is someone who is able to proofread" what I write.  As you can see, I posted the same thing twice.  Sorry.  How do I change the picture and statement by my name?

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Wilderness and Therapudic Boarding school
« on: June 30, 2006, 12:51:00 AM »
We continued to have problems with her.  At times she was suicidal, bulimic, cutting, doing drugs.  We found a supportive school, a supportive therapist and I moved her to an apartment with me to get her away from her abusive father.  I spent more time with her, talked about her behaviors, talked about mental illness and treatment options.  She no longer feared punishment for her problems, but support.
She is currently enrolled to begin college in the fall. :smile:

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Wilderness programs and TBS
« on: June 30, 2006, 12:41:00 AM »
:sad: I just read the book Help at Any Cost.  I wish I had this information when I was having problems with my daughter.  I would NEVER have sent her to wilderness or the therapudic boarding school. I felt I had the best advice I could get from a psychiatrist and educational consultant.  My gut feelings about the TBS made me take my daughter out after only five months.  Thank goodness I did.  She still has problems, but now we deal wtih them and we get along well.  Don't resort to sending a child away.  It cost us a fotune and did nothing to help.

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