Troubled Teen Industry (TTI)
Institutionalized Child Abuse: The Troubled Teen Industry
There are two major legal loopholes allowing institutionalized child abuse to occur: the consequences of signing over parental rights and inadequate state regulation.
MORE THAN TROUBLING: THE ALARMING ABSENCE OF ‘TROUBLED TEEN INDUSTRY’ REGULATION AND PROPOSALS FOR REFORM
By establishing a comprehensive legislative framework, beginning with the passage of the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, continuing with further federal legislation under the Commerce Clause and the implementation of a uniform states’ rights framework for children in residential treatment programs, we have the opportunity to finally protect some of the most vulnerable youth.
Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
The Lancet paper has of course been retracted, but for far narrower misconduct than is now apparent. The retraction statement cites the GMC’s findings that the patients were not consecutively referred and the study did not have ethical approval, leaving the door open for those who want to continue to believe that the science, flawed though it always was, still stands.
Effectiveness of Two Hospitalization Alternatives Compared to Psychiatric Admission: An Ecological Longitudinal Study
Soteria exhibited significantly greater improvement of psychotic symptoms compared to TAIHT but not compared to the psychiatric ward. The psychiatric ward and Soteria both demonstrated significantly greater improvements in functioning compared to technologically assisted intensive home treatment (TAIHT), with no significant differences between them.
Troubling the ‘troubled teen’ industry: Adult reflections on youth experiences of therapeutic boarding schools
Case study interviews with former US-based therapeutic boarding school students demonstrate the role of sanism, adultism and epistemic injustice in constructing and regulating the ‘troubled teen’. The schools’ strict structure and surveillance culture could not override students will and their ability to find means to resist.
Investigating the impact of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization on youth and young adult trust and help-seeking in pathways to care
Findings draw attention to the ways in which coercive experiences may impact youth pathways to and through care. Finally, these data may inform the development and testing of inpatient and post-discharge interventions designed to mitigate potential harm.
Clinical and social factors associated with involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation in children and adolescents: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and narrative synthesis
Over-representation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation in certain groups might begin in childhood, potentially establishing a cycle of inequality that continues into adulthood. Further research into the systemic factors underlying these health-care inequalities and the barriers to accessing less coercive psychiatric treatment is urgently required, with specific consideration of racial and ethnic factors.
Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development
The review highlights 11 architectural design characteristics (atmosphere, size, soft room, history, location, outdoor space, cleanliness, interior design, facilities, staff only areas and accessibility), six service design characteristics (guiding principles, living and working together, consensual treatment, staff, supporting personal meaning making and power), five opportunities (outcomes, human rights, economics, hospitalization and underserved) and four types of barriers (clinical, economic and regulatory, societal and ideological).
Troubled Affluent Youth’s Experiences in a Therapeutic Boarding School: The Elite Arm of the Youth Control Complex and Its Implications for Youth Justice
While a degree and the lack of a criminal record ultimately benefited these privileged youth, the strong-arm rehabilitation tactics of this kind of total institution are a problematic model to use to advance youth justice.
Supported discharge service versus inpatient care evaluation (SITE): a randomised controlled trial comparing effectiveness of an intensive community care service versus inpatient treatment as usual for adolescents with severe psychiatric disorders: self‐harm, functional impairment, and educational and clinical outcomes
The addition of ICCS to TAU may lower the risk of multiple self-harm and may reduce the duration of inpatient stay, especially in those patients admitted for private care. Early discharge with intensive community care service treatment (ICCS) appears to be a viable alternative to standard inpatient treatment.
“To Use This Word ... Would Be Absurd”: How the Brainwashing Label Threatened and Enabled the Troubled-Teen Industry
This article poses a two-part question about the troubled-teen industry (TTI). How did stakeholders invoke the brainwashing label when criticizing American teen treatment programs and how did program directors, and those financially and ideologically invested in them, respond?