With an estimated twenty percent of America’s children under the age of 18 afflicted with emotional and behavioral disorders, hundreds of thousands of these young people are confined each year to psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, therapeutic foster homes, boot camps, and behavioral academies. While in some cases children may very appropriately be referred to and treated within inpatient psychiatric facilities, one must question the benefit of many of these out-of-home placements. What kind of treatment are our children receiving? Is there an intensive therapeutic experience that effectively meets their needs and addresses their problems? What is hospitalization like and how do they spend their time? Do most return home “better”? You may be shocked and surprised to learn what really goes on behind the locked doors of an adolescent psychiatric unit.

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