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Search results for "therapy" ...
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Vitalistic Therapeutic Charter School
The story focused on an obscure 10-year-old charter school in Bethlehem, Pa that taught mostly poor, mentally disabled and minority students through curriculum laden with intensive mental health therapy.
Tags: Vitalistic Therapeautic Charter School; taxpayer; education funds; Bethlehem
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Controversial Mass. School Depends on NY Students, Money
A controversial Massachusetts school that among other methods, uses electroshock therapy, has been found to rely on publicly funded dollars, even as it has fallen into disfavor among other states around the nation.
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Doctors of Deception
This book describes the history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), better known as shock treatment. Doctors promote these treatments as safe; these doctors also receive a great profit from these treatments. Further, this book reveals that these treatments are not safe according to science and evidence from firsthand accounts of patients. ECT can have permanent negative effects on memory and cognition actions.
Tags: doctors; medical; health; science; patients; controversial; procedure; public; shock industry
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The Lost Kids
Treatment for mentally ill children is suppose to help children, but the treatment in Arizona is absent in many ways. This series explains the extent parents will go to find adequate help for their children. Further, will also describe the poor conditions where many of these children end up, these include the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. Even after improvements, places such as the Juvenile Corrections cannot stop children from committing suicide.
Tags: Arizona; mentally ill; children; kids; treatment; parents; suicide; therapy; camp; support; help; illness; disease
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Mount Bachelor Academy: Ever unconventional, long controversial
When attending a private school for troubled teens, no one thought they would ever have to do such a thing as performing a lap dance while wearing revealing clothes. This method was "therapy" for victims of sexual abuse. Other types of methods were used, such as "sleep deprivation, extended physical labor, verbal abuse and restricting communication between parents and children." The reason these methods could continue was the school was "catering to the wealthy parents who felt they had nothing to lose and students were afraid to reveal the truth."
Tags: FOIA; private school; troubled; teens; students; education; mistreatment; abuse; wealth
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School of Shock
This investigation focuses on the Judge Rotenberg Center, the only school in the country to routinely punish students with electric shocks. This investigative story is the first to reveal what day-to-day life is like in the school. The reporters found that the school's methods are not scientifically just, that students as young as eight or nine are routinely shocked for minor transgressions, and that levels of student violence remain high, though most of the violent behavior is directed to the school's staff.
Tags: education; corporal punishment; mental illness; special education; behavioral modification; abuse; shock therapy
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School of Shock
This story investigates the Judge Rotenberg Center, a residential special education school in Massachusetts that treats students' problematic behavior through the use of controversial aversive therapy -- mainly in the form of electric shocks applied to the skin. This piece traces the history of aversive techniques and explores the question of when, if ever, they are appropriate; tells the story of the school and the man who founded it; explains the tough choices facing parents who consent to getting their children shocked; and describes in detail the methods used and the concerns regulators have about them.
Tags: education; therapy; psychology; alternative treatment; child abuse
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Treatment of Sex Offenders
In 1998, Colorado established a life-time-of- supervision law for sex offenders. Since then only two convicted sex offenders have been paroled. These inmates are also given therapy, not with the hope of curing them, but instead with the goal to teach them how to manage their behavior. When an offender goes on parole he does so with the recommendation of his therapist. In 2005 the Colorado Department of Corrections decided that the public had the right to know sex offenders' progress which includes their therapists' recommendations.
Tags: sex offenders; law; therapy
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Psychopolitics
A six part series looked into the leader of the New York Independence Party, Fred Newman. Critics say Newman has a sordid history that parties, courting his vote, chose to ignore. Former allies say Newman leads a cult which requires members to give their lives and money to his cause. With no formal training in psychology Newman founded Social Therapy, with 9 centers around the country. Patients are told that society is to blame for their problems so the only hope for improvement is to improve society by working for one of Newman's organizations.
Tags: Fred Newman; New York Independence Party; Social Therapy; cults; All Stars Project; FOIA; politics
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Where Hope is Locked Away: California's Youth Prisons. A Mercury News Special Report.
This series examines California's failing youth prison system. The state pledged that all youth would receive counseling and rehabilitative treatment, but it seems like the system is too flawed to keep those promises. Now, tear gas, gang violence, and fear are much more common than progress. The reporters specifically focused on five issues: education, treatment, sentencing, parole and alternatives. They compare the California system to better ones in Texas and Missouri.
Tags: Youth Authority; juvenile delinquents; abuse; sex offenders; therapy; mental health; rehabilitation; drugs