User talk:Cdw1952/Troubled Teen Program

Issues Anticipated
A claim has been made that the 2003-2005 Ellen Behrens and Kristin Satterfield study was biased because schools belonging to Aspen Education participated in the study. Cdw1952 (talk) 16:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

The purpose of this article and the template for the troubled teen industry is to explain the nature and scope of the industry. While criticism is expected unnecessary emphasis on the controversies should be avoided.I ♥ ♪♫ (talk) 22:38, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Sample programs
[Julian Youth Academy] Formerly CASCADE SCHOOL Whitmore, California, now a Christian residential boarding school.

Many Issues
This Admin notice board entry covers the concerns over many troubled teen program articles in wikipedia. Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive208 Some clean up was performed but much work is still to be done. The main problem is with the article titled Behavior modification facility. This article is not factually based, Behavior Modification is a concept not an actual place. Furthermore, a behavior modification facility would be not strictly focused on "adolescents who are perceived as displaying antisocial behavior". It appears to be an activism article intended to discredit residential treatment programs for teens.

The lead section is an opinion piece and all the subject material is covered more comprehensively in other articles. The controversy section has been repeated in the following articles Therapeutic boarding schools, Residential treatment center.

The first version of this article consisted of the following statement: "A Behavior Modification Facility is a private, residential educational institution to which parents send disobedient children in an attempt to improve their conduct. A number of such facilities are operated in the United States. Others operate in Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, but are run primarily for the children of U.S. parents." This demonstrated to POV pushing problem in the origins of the article. I ♥ ♪♫ (talk) 23:25, 5 April 2010 (UTC)