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Re: PROFESSIONALS AGAINST ABUSE IN RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES

I found this to be true of Provo Canyon School:

Young people are isolated from their families and then get unproven, confrontational therapies. Several deaths have been reported, as well.

"Abuse is sold as treatment," said Huffine. "It's advertised as `behavioral therapy' but as a researcher, I can tell you it has nothing to do with behavioral therapy."

Parents often are so desperate for help that they fail to check the credentials of program staff and are easy prey for fear-mongering sales tactics. They end up paying thousands of dollars a month in the hope that something will help their children.

Abuse in the forms of prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, humiliation, forced exercise and forced drugging and brutal takedowns are all to common at Provo Canyon School.