Bibliograph

Troubled, the failed promise of America's behavioral treatment programs, Kenneth R. Rosen

Type

Label

Troubled, the failed promise of America's behavioral treatment programs, Kenneth R. Rosen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and resources

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Troubled

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1139378392

Responsibility statement

Kenneth R. Rosen

Sub title

the failed promise of America's behavioral treatment programs

Summary

"Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control--suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage--are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these "troubled teens" fear it's their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever. Acclaimed journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out at these programs. Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on their own scarred journeys through the programs into adulthood. Based on three years of reporting and more than one hundred interviews with other clients, their parents, psychologists, and health-care professionals, Troubled combines harrowing storytelling with investigative journalism to expose the disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry. Not without hope, Troubled ultimately delivers an emotional, crucial tapestry of coming of age, neglect, exploitation, trauma, and fraught redemption"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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