Reddit reviews Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

There's a book written about the entire industry of teen boot camps, and it's well-written, well-researched, and extremely eye-opening. It's called 'Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids' by Maia Szalavitz. (Obligatory Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Troubled-Teen-Industry/dp/1594489106/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346358315&sr=1-2&keywords=Maia+boot+camp ) It's worth the read.

Better book on this that deserves more attention:

http://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Maia-Szalavitz/dp/1594489106

Here's some documentation on the therapeutic boarding school industry:

Island View
https://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/island-view/#

Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwndjx/thousands-of-american-teens-are-trapped-in-abusive-cult-like-treatment-centres

The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry/

The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs
https://reason.com/archives/2006/12/28/the-trouble-with-troubled-teen

“Treatment Centers” for Troubled Teens Are Gothic Nightmares
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/08/24/the_huffington_post_publishes_a_horrifying_piece_about_troubled_teen_residential.html

The Trouble With Tough Love
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800062.html

The Legal Industry for Kidnapping Teens
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jm5ng4/the-legal-industry-for-kidnapping-teens

The Troubled Teen Industry: The Politics of Abuse Within Therapeutic Boarding Schools
https://medium.com/@sneii748/the-troubled-teen-industry-the-politics-of-abuse-withintherapeutic-boarding-schools-d343435e5d36

Teen Boot Camps: America’s Legacy of Torturing Children
https://www.practicalrecovery.com/prblog/teen-boot-camps-treatment-torture/

Tough-love drug rehabs in Mexico have ‘kidnapping teams’ to help addicts recover
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/10/21/tough-love-drug-rehabs-in-mexico-have-kidnapping-teams-to-help-addicts-recover.html

When Wilderness Boot Camps Take Tough Love Too Far
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/when-wilderness-boot-camps-take-toughlove-too-far/375582/

Kidnapped for Christ Documentary | 2014
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Kidnapped-for-Christ/601437

Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (2006)
https://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Troubled-Teen-Industry/dp/1594489106/

Hope this helps.

There's a really interesting book about the Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs, wilderness programs, and other "behavior modification boarding schools." It does a great job of illustrating the manipulation carried out by the companies to convince parents to ship off their kids and how they're able to keep them there. It is very sad and disturbing, many children died in these places in horrific ways like starvation, suicide, physical abuse, untreated injuries, etc.

Oh yeah these are definitely real. I think almost all of the WWASP schools have closed, but there are other organizations that are essentially the same.

>I now live on DEATH ROW in Texas and honest to God the conditions are WAY better here than they were at Casa.

Source. He doesn't, um, live on death row anymore.

They're not overly legal, but a lot are operated outside the US. There have been a lot of lawsuits and raids. Here's a pretty popular book about this. I haven't read it yet but it's on my "to read" list.

Oh, fuck off.

Here's an academic source.

Here's from a New York newspaper from some years ago. Still relevant.

Here's a whole fucking book

See this? You're literally at the second to bottom step.