http://www.leymann.se/English/32111E.HTM*******************
I'll do my best to summarize, and perhaps over simplify, Dr. Leymann's work. A clinical study of 350 victims of mobbing (concerted group bullying) in the workplace was conducted. All of them exhibited varying degrees of diagnostic symptoms suggesting PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and/or GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) as a result of said bullying.
It doesn't take a huge amount of inference to subsititute "workplace" for "program" and apply these findings to the victims of program abuse. Whether it was 'group time', 'motivating', or 'confrontation', here is evidence to the contrary of what the programs' proponents would have parents think of their methodology.
