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The ‘troubled teen’ industry in the USA | DW Documentary

  • September 21, 2024



The ‘troubled teen’ industry in the USA | DW Documentary

In the USA, teenagers with behavioral problems often end up in re-education centers. These function like prisons, isolating the young people from the outside world. The harsh educational measures sometimes end in death.

This documentary sheds light on the extreme methods used in re-education facilities in the USA. These include isolation, torture and humiliation, as well as something called “assault therapy”. These practices, which have little or nothing to do with traditional psychological treatments, aim to “reform” individuals through discipline and suffering. The adolescents sent there by their parents are between 8 and 18 years old. These parents report being overwhelmed by their adolescent children, citing problems from learning difficulties to substance abuse, social media addiction, anxiety disorders, depression or a sexual orientation they find unacceptable.

These private facilities do a lucrative business. In the hope that their children will get better, families spend thousands of dollars every month. Some even mortgage their homes to pay for their children to be part of these programs. Their children, on the other hand, can suffer lifelong damage there. There have also been cases of suicide. The film features young adults who have managed to escape the prison school system and parents who realized too late how cruel this system is.

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42 comments

  1. These kids need to work and help the poor. Parents are selfish, my mom is selfish. I used to garden as a teenager. It helped a lot.

    If you're stuck in your head, you are in the loop. You have to work to get out of the loop. We can change our society.

  2. I've been there guys. Let the past be the past, don't stay in your head. You can only do it through work, or helping others. The only cure is being present in life. Understanding that your parents are human, you can be better!

  4. Impermanence of life. You can end your suffering by serving others. You have that power. You are powerful. Everybody was born stupid. You go to school and study. You can't change other people but you can change.

  5. Depression will make you see things. It just your brain. Anything people do is not personal. It is about them. You can say no. You can't change the world but you can change yourself. I did. You can as well.

  6. Life is not easy. Understand your parents. Observe nature. Ants, wasps in my patio work since the sunrise. You are this powerful energy, universe loves you, god loves you that's all that you need. You will see, right people will come into your life. We all see each other.

  11. Don't take anything personal. You will see you can see yourself in every person. We all are growing in our consciousness. We grow through understanding.

  14. Though this is shocking to see, this 69-year-old woman can tell you that in the "old days" (1970's) troubled children like these landed in state mental hospitals. These were even more messed up, because they used shock therapy along with all the drugs and staff abuse. I know because I was sent to one at age 14 because of the label of "incorrigible" for refusing to stay in an abusive family. I can guarantee at least 100% of these kids just needed better parenting, or at least an adult mentor at school.

  15. It's a business first and also a prison… anything else is secondary… the control, the drug supply, a mini prison prep facility it is… what a shame!!.

  18. This type of institution contravenes any healthy and loving pedagogy. While this type of practice contravenes the UN convention on the rights of the child, and possibly the Constitution, as a moral science teacher, a yoga teacher, and a lawyer in a third world country, I cannot imagine these practices, concocted stories and voyeurism, is still permitted to exist in the best country of the world.

    Do we love our neighbours? How can we let this happen as psychologically astute nations in the West or by the West?

    May God give us the stamina to help ensure our children are safe, free, happy, confident, themselves,, and ensure that all those held in this way will be freed, heal compellingly fast from such cruel ordeals, and that together, we will hold all those who engage in such practices, accountable.

    May God keep them safe and well, so the souls of humanity will never be crushed💜🕊️🧘

  19. I'm sure it's more affordable to send our child to a psychologist and work with your child through their issues. It's like the parents just don't want to care for their own children themselves.

  20. This one is so hard for a mother who has a son, that when younger, I felt that was the best and only option I had to help with his violence and destruction. But, in hindsight, I’m very glad I didn’t!! And sometime, a couple years ago, he has calmed down and he now has self control. I’m soo proud of him!!

  23. My ex and my best friend both got "kidnapped" in the middle of the night and taken to these places, all kinds of mssed up stuff happens at them. Alot of the councilors and staff are creeps also

  24. I went to Heritage school. Thankfully it wasn’t this bad but still had several issues. Restraint injuries but they were actual restraints. Inappropriately dosed meds. And isolation. It helped me but most people it didn’t.

  29. As long as your bunkmate doesn't snore, that place doesn't look too bad. Being sober is boring af when you have a bad habit of not being sober. Being there you can just so your best, try to benefit from the environment, wait it out and don't worry about the outside world until you are healthy again.

  32. Only rich kids get this kind of treatment. Poor kids wait years and years for a mental health provider. I work in the pharmacy department in an american hospital and i've had patients that need help but is still on a wait list. The girl in this piece is clearly rich. She's wearing a mount gay yacht racing cap which cannot be purchase and is only obtained by being an owner of a yacht or a volunteer crew member. Only rich people in america plays with yachts.

  36. This is prison. As a previous boarding school student, this should be banned. I can understand that some parents don't know what to do. I'm sorry about how you feel as a parent. However, sending them here is just wild.

  41. I am a survivor! I will never forget what happened to me! I will never forget the psychiatrists and therapists who KNEW what was going on was wrong!

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