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Troubled : the failed promise of America's behavioral treatment programs / Kenneth R. Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosen, Kenneth R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- At-risk youth--Behavior modification.
- At-risk youth.
- At-risk youth--Abuse of--United States.
- Behavior modification--United States.
- Behavior modification.
- Mental health services--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Mental health services.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 205 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little A, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control--suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage--are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these "troubled teens" fear it's their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever. Acclaimed journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out at these programs. Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on their own scarred journeys through the programs into adulthood. Based on three years of reporting and more than one hundred interviews with other clients, their parents, psychologists, and health-care professionals, Troubled combines harrowing storytelling with investigative journalism to expose the disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry. Not without hope, Troubled ultimately delivers an emotional, crucial tapestry of coming of age, neglect, exploitation, trauma, and fraught redemption." -- from publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Book I Wilderness
- -Hazel
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Book II Residential
- -Avery
- Book III Lockdown
- -Mike and Mark
- Book IV Afterlife; or, For Forever
- ch. 1 The Programs Today
- ch. 2 Hazel
- ch. 3 Avery
- ch. 4 Mike
- ch. 5 Mark.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and resources.
- ISBN:
- 9781542007887
- 1542007887
- 9781542022118
- 1542022118
- OCLC:
- 1139378392
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