Tag: suburbias dirty little secret

• Post-Incarceration Syndrome and the Forgotten Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry

  

  The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a billion-dollar network of behavior modification programs, including wilderness therapy camps, therapeutic boarding schools, boot camps, and residential treatment centers. Marketed to desperate parents as a last resort for their struggling children, these programs promise transformation and healing. But as a survivor of the TTI myself, I can tell…

  jessicawoodville

  March 6, 2025

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Advocacy, Troubled Teen Industry

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Boarding School Syndrome, cptsd, Cross Creek Academy, Cross Creek Manor, institutional care, mental health, PICS, Post Incarceration Syndrome, prison reform, recovery, resilience, suburbias dirty little secret, teens for profits, Troubled Teen Industry, TTI, world wide association of specialty programs and schools, WWASP