Cafety
America's Tough Love Habit
We are, famously, blasé about our acts of torture overseas. But why? The laser-like focus on fixing the economy , wanting to avoid more political divisiveness, the diminishment of watchdog journalism—are all part of the explanation. But there's another...
An Oregon School for Troubled Teens Is Under Scrutiny
On April 28, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that has caused anguish in the world of special education and children's mental heal...
POWERLESS - Documentary on Alberta Adolescent Recover Centre
(Click here to watch the show on the fifth estate website)What could possibly be wrong with a rehab centre for addicted youth that boasts an 80 per ce...
On Multi-Systemic Therapy and other Community Based Alternatives
The problem with Multi-Systemic Therapy is that it requires rigid adherence to the model if it is to produce the desired treatment effects and this means it is expensive ...
Teen Residential Treatment Programs
News from Capitol Hill - Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
On February 23rd the House of Representatives passed the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Treat...
National Disability Rights Network Releases Report on Seclusion and Restraint in U.S. Schools - 2009
National Disability Rights Network Releases Shocking Report on Seclusion and Restraint in U.S. Schools
Aaron Bacon (2009) - Based on a True Story
Aaron Bacon , is a 2009 drama film about the death of Aaron Bacon and is based on the true story of the 16-year-old boy's death as a result of malpractice and abuse in a tough ...
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CEDU Documentary
Director: Liam Scheff
Surviving Cedu,” tells the story of a half-dozen teenagers who were each sent to the Cedu School, variously described to them as a standard boarding school, a wilderness adventure school, or a therapeutic learning environment in the Western mountains of the United States. But the experience of the school was something entirely different. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. Relationships at the school between students - and staff - seemed to have little formal structure or sense of normal boundary - and a student’s life was always under threat of intense and unpredictable disciplining and punishment.
