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Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids Paperback – July 1, 2020

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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 boot camps, rehabs, emotional growth boarding schools and wilderness programs, that make up this industry are even now finding new customers.Maia Szalavitz's Help at Any Cost is the first in-depth investigation of these tough love programs and their practices, starting with their roots in the cult sixties drug rehabilitation program, Synanon, which remains the model for many of today's adult and teen drug programs.This book tracks the rise of Straight, Inc., which received Nancy Reagan's seal of approval in the eighties and its spin-offs, explores the ensuing growth of boot camps and wilderness programs, and features an in-depth investigation of one of the dominant chains of the the 90s and 00s, the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASP), which is linked with sites still operating today.Szalavitz uncovers disturbing findings about these programs' methods, including accounts of physical and verbal abuse,and presents us with moving, often horrifying, first-person testimony of kids who made it through-as well as stories of those who didn't survive. The book also contains a thoughtfully compiled guide for parents, which details effective treatment alternatives.Weaving careful reporting with astute analysis, Maia Szalavitz has written an important and timely account that will change the way we look at rebellious teens-and the people to whom we entrust them. Help at Any Cost is a vital resource with an urgent message that will draw attention to a compelling issue long overlooked and a history that still shadows youth and adult addiction treatment in America.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08C9CPQDX
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 1, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 278 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8662922778
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #372,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #232 in Children's Studies Social Science (Books)
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Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning author and journalist who covers addiction and neuroscience. Her next book, Unbroken Brain (St. Martins, April, 2016), uses her own story of recovery from heroin and cocaine addiction to explore how reframing addiction as a developmental disorder could revolutionize prevention, treatment and policy.

She’s the author or co-author of six previous books, including the bestselling The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (Basic, 2007) and Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— and Endangered (Morrow, 2010), both with leading child psychiatrist and trauma expert Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD.

Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, is the first history of systemic abuse in “tough love” programs and rehabs and helped spur Congressional hearings, GAO investigations and proposed legislation to regulate these groups. She also co-wrote the first evidence-based consumer guide to addiction treatment, Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, with Joe Volpicelli, MD, PhD. (Wiley, 2000).

Currently, she writes a bi-weekly column for VICE on drugs and addiction. From 2010 to 2013, she wrote daily for TIME.com and she continues to freelance there and for other publications including the New York Times, Scientific American Mind, Nature, New York Magazine online, Pacific Standard, Matter, Nautilus, and The Verge.

Szalavitz has won major awards from organizations like the American Psychological Association, the Drug Policy Alliance and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in recognition of her work in these areas.

She lives in New York with her husband and a Siamese shelter cat.

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Joe

Great exposition to this disturbing industry.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020

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Help At Any Cost exposes the staggering physical, financial, emotional, and moral costs of a “troubled teen industry” where residental treatment facilities, boot camps, wilderness programs, and therapeutic boarding schools all abuse youth and fraud parents. My hope is that further exposure wil bring it down.

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Absolutely worth buying if you are thinking about sending a loved one to “treatment”

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Colorado Contributor

The best book outlining the troubled teen industry ever written.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020

The depth and detail gone through to write this book is amazing. The truth is presented is a fashion where the veil of deception is lifted and the key players behind the scenes are identified through heavy research and footnotes. This is the book to understand why troubled teen programs, and truthfully so many "tough love" based porgrams, fail and create more emotional / mental problems down the road than they help in the short term.

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Christina E. Blakemore

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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021

I did not read this book but I did send my son to a Wilderness program and on to a therapeutic boarding school. If you are facing this extremely difficult decision use a reputable educational consultant in your area like we did. Know your insurance mental heath policy and work it. We had a good experience with both programs. While nothing is ever perfect our son has gained life long tools to handle life and so has our family. Good Luck on your journey.

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