rcrocket wrote:I need to sign off again. Wasting too much time on this board and now we aren't talking about the scriptures or history any more, but about posters.
Bob, rather than accuse Eric of lying and writing posts on here in an attempt to malign his character, do a bit of research. I wish I had a list of all the web sites I visited to offer you, however this one would be a good start and give you some history of behavior modification teen programs which are abusive.
Here's a link and below an excerpt.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/117088.htmlMeanwhile, other organizations found they could profit from tough love with legal impunity. As negative publicity finally began to hurt Straight and skepticism about the drug war itself grew, other groups began to use similar tactics, all converging on a combination of rigid rules, total isolation of participants from both family and the outside world, constant emotional attacks, and physical punishments. These programs were sold as responses not just to drug use but to teenage “defiance,” “disobedience,” “inattention,” and other real or imagined misbehavior.
Military-style “boot camps” came into vogue in the early ’90s as an alternative to juvenile prison. The media spread fears of a new generation of violent teenaged “super-predators,” and this solution gained political appeal across the spectrum. Liberals liked that it wasn’t prison and usually meant a shorter sentence than conventional detention; conservatives liked the lower costs, military style, and tough discipline. Soon “hoods in the woods” programs, which took kids into the wilderness and used the harsh environment, isolation, and spare rations to similar ends, also rose in popularity, as did “emotional growth” schools, which used isolation and Synanon-style confrontational groups.
Again, little evidence ever supported these programs. When the U.S. Department of Justice began studying the boot camps, it found that they were no more effective than juvenile prison. For a 1997 report to Congress, the department funded a review of the research, which found that the boot camps were ineffective and that there was little empirical support for wilderness programs. In late 2004 the National Institutes of Health released a state-of-the-science consensus statement on dealing with juvenile violence and delinquency. It said that programs that seek to change behavior through “fear and tough treatment appear ineffective.”