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I've challenged redditors here and on many other subs with this : Name one teen rehab or corrective residential facility that has never had a serious reputation for, or history of abuse. No one can name one it seems.
If I am being asked to help, the best I can do, is unconventional and I do not expect everyone to approve or whatever but here goes.
I wandered randomly into meeting a high level hypnotist who tranced out artists and writers for a living, allegedly helping them with the creative flow or some such thing.
He put me in a trance without my desire or consent one day, and it spurred me on to study hypnosis, being fascinated that someone could do that.
There are more than a few schools/genres of hypnosis. 99% of them were designed to attempt to help people, by people looking to help people.
I ended up reading lots and lots about therapy, as many of the hypno superstars were also allegly great therapists.
I ended up helping myself a whole lot, just from studying proper therapy books, that aren't some pop star new age trendy drivel. It can be hard to tell what to read. Where should one look?
Type hypnosis into an amazon books search. Sort by rating. Some of these books are ex$pen$ive.
Neuro Linguistic Programming is a deep school of trance induction.
Put that into google and sort by rating.
Type it into youtube. I see 65,000 videos when I sort by rating.
If you have a close friend, invite them into your study project, or even if not a close friend, someone you feel is truly good hearted and someone you can trust. Many books suggest finding a partner to go back and forth with. I've had hypnosis fights with the guy I know who told me about some books.
Don't trip out on trying to memorize or keep all the details of everything you read. Just get a few books and leave them around. Just casually browse that stuff if you don't feel like tackling a whole book at once and trying to ''learn'' it all. It;s a skill, like playing pool, or rock climbing. Just dabble around different books casually. I am sure that those two will be a great start.
If you want therapy in your life, getting to know what kinds there are out there is a good start. Many of the books are quite entertaining and fun, for clinical psychology books. The two I linked will make you laugh.
I think everyone should study hypnosis in elementary school, so it is more easily recognized when authorities, the media, and schools use it on people.
You start seeing and hearing politicians in a whole new way.
It tended to be invented for good, but is used to do bad things, as this sub knows very well. Studying and using what you read can help unravel and reframe experiences that can use some clarity and some that could use some fuzziness. If you want to be a great therapist to yourself,and want top take it seriously, you can do it if you choose to. Read enough books, and bet you can get hired as a counselor somewhere, when you tell them what you've read.
You'll be more helpful to yourself and to your friends and strangers if you just want to dabble.

Good for you, anything that can be done to keep kids at home and in their home communities is great.

If you're looking for a helpful guide on finding solutions to some of the problems you're having with your son, consider checking out Collaborative Problem Solving. It's the treatment modality we use at the psychiatric residential center I work at.

Here are some hot links I would like to share.

http://www.amazon.com/Aaron-bacon-Troubled-Youth-Collection/dp/B00462NFWS/
Maybe you can show it in class


http://troubledteenresources.org/
Information on programs and kidnappers available across the country.

http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2004/feature_labi_julaug04.msp
Rick Strawn article


http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm
Frequently used by us. Gives quick info on the conditions of currently operating programs.

http://www.fornits.com
The Troubled Teen Industry Wiki

A MUST read: Anatomy of an Epidemic, by Robert Whitaker

There is this book: https://www.amazon.com/Thats-Not-Feeling-Dan-Josefson/dp/1616951885

Also look at this book which is about Anneewakee Boys' Wilderness Camp:

• https://www.amazon.com/Anneewakee-Journey-Steve-Salem-Evans/dp/1508919658

I could not agree more . . . I used to cut when I was a teenager, and I was locked up in CCM, a WWASP program with dozens of other girls who were cutters. most people who cut do so because their emotional pain is so intense that they need a release. Usually it's not nearly as dangerous as it looks to outsiders. I found these books helpful. http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Understanding-Self-Mutilation-Steven-Levenkron/dp/0393319385/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322706277&sr=1-3 and http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Red-Scream-Self-Mutilation-Language/dp/0140280537/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322706277&sr=1-11

If no one is using drugs, then how did this fellow manage to sell three million dollars worth a week out of his barn in a tiny redneck community? Was he really running Amway on the side and using the heroin as a cover?

Here's some documentation on the therapeutic boarding school industry:

Island View
https://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/island-view/#

Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwndjx/thousands-of-american-teens-are-trapped-in-abusive-cult-like-treatment-centres

The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry/

The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs
https://reason.com/archives/2006/12/28/the-trouble-with-troubled-teen

“Treatment Centers” for Troubled Teens Are Gothic Nightmares
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/08/24/the_huffington_post_publishes_a_horrifying_piece_about_troubled_teen_residential.html

The Trouble With Tough Love
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800062.html

The Legal Industry for Kidnapping Teens
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jm5ng4/the-legal-industry-for-kidnapping-teens

The Troubled Teen Industry: The Politics of Abuse Within Therapeutic Boarding Schools
https://medium.com/@sneii748/the-troubled-teen-industry-the-politics-of-abuse-withintherapeutic-boarding-schools-d343435e5d36

Teen Boot Camps: America’s Legacy of Torturing Children
https://www.practicalrecovery.com/prblog/teen-boot-camps-treatment-torture/

Tough-love drug rehabs in Mexico have ‘kidnapping teams’ to help addicts recover
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/10/21/tough-love-drug-rehabs-in-mexico-have-kidnapping-teams-to-help-addicts-recover.html

When Wilderness Boot Camps Take Tough Love Too Far
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/when-wilderness-boot-camps-take-toughlove-too-far/375582/

Kidnapped for Christ Documentary | 2014
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Kidnapped-for-Christ/601437

Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (2006)
https://www.amazon.com/Help-Any-Cost-Troubled-Teen-Industry/dp/1594489106/

Hope this helps.