Help at Any Cost How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

Name: Help at Any Cost How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
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ISBN: 9781594489105

ISBN-10: 1594489106

ISBN-13: 9781594489105

Edition: 2006

Authors: Maia Szalavitz

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A investigative expos of the brutal conditions in treatment programs for troubled teens, fueled by rigorous reporting and shocking first-person accounts. The troubled-teen industry, with its scaremongering and claims of miraculous changes in behavior through harsh discipline, has existed in one form or another for decades, despite a dearth of evidence supporting its methods. And the growing number of programs that make up this industry are today finding more customers than ever. Maia Szalavitz's Help at Any Costis the first in-depth investigation of this industry and its practices, starting with its roots in the cultlike sixties rehabilitation program Synanon and Large Group Awareness…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/16/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Getting straight in the 1980s



Richard's reversal



Into the wilderness



"They used tough, not love"



The sting of the WWASP



"Based on the results, you have exactly what you intended"



Tough love on trial



Miller time



The end of tough love?



For parents of troubled teens