CNN is carrying the story of one "Doctor" Alexander Panio who ran a residential treatment facility in Colorado for kids with mental health and/or drug addiction issues. Former guests of the facility allege routine physical, emotional, and occasional sexual abuse. "Patients" report being made by the staff to agree that they were faking their mental illnesses and sometimes having their psychiatric medications withheld.
This case is unusual in that this fellow seems to have gotten in trouble with the law by faking his credentials. It's an odd state of affairs, because similar clinics and facilities for "troubled teens" manage to operate freely in a few locations around the country, whose administrators have never pretended to have actual medical or psychology credentials, and which occasionally face the same barrage of lawsuits over identical situations of abuse and maltreatment by staff.
It seems to me that "troubled" children - those with disciplinary or mental health issues or drug-related problems - are probably one of the most easily-exploited classes of people in the US today. The treatment methodologies and philosophies of these places - whichever kind of facility they might be - never make sense to me given the stated goals. Put simply: they don't work, and there's no logical reason to believe they would even absent their horrible success rate.
I personally feel that places like these - teen "boot camps", "academies" for difficult children, and remotely-located reformatory programs as they currently exist ought to be outlawed, but sadly it appears the people who run many of these travesties are too politically well-connected for that to happen.
This case is unusual in that this fellow seems to have gotten in trouble with the law by faking his credentials. It's an odd state of affairs, because similar clinics and facilities for "troubled teens" manage to operate freely in a few locations around the country, whose administrators have never pretended to have actual medical or psychology credentials, and which occasionally face the same barrage of lawsuits over identical situations of abuse and maltreatment by staff.
It seems to me that "troubled" children - those with disciplinary or mental health issues or drug-related problems - are probably one of the most easily-exploited classes of people in the US today. The treatment methodologies and philosophies of these places - whichever kind of facility they might be - never make sense to me given the stated goals. Put simply: they don't work, and there's no logical reason to believe they would even absent their horrible success rate.
I personally feel that places like these - teen "boot camps", "academies" for difficult children, and remotely-located reformatory programs as they currently exist ought to be outlawed, but sadly it appears the people who run many of these travesties are too politically well-connected for that to happen.
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