• Silverseren@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Passages Alaska, founded in 2020. The website is incredibly vague on whom the therapy they use is for. They claim it’s for teens who “struggle with anxiety, depression, technology addiction, low self-esteem, and failure to launch” which is, as stated, incredibly vague.

    Actual medical anxiety and depression isn’t the fault of the person and needs medicine, not “mindfulness therapy”. And I have no idea what “technology addiction” is. This sounds like parents who are mad at their kid being on their phone all the time.

    It seems to be some New Age-y nonsense with a bunch of meditation and yoga BS.

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      This is just one of numerous abusive things conservatives do to their children to “toughen 'em up”.

      Conservatives should not be permitted to be around children.

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      Going through their website, they seem incredibly bland. The only thing that really started ringing alarm bells is that one of the staff has a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University (!!!).

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          The other people seem mostly fine. I am somewhat bothered by several of the staff being in the process of earning their degrees, and also worried because where they are earning them is left unsaid.

          The founder studied at an actual reputable university.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think it’s meditation and yoga, it’s stuff like backpacking and survival skills.

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      At best that translates to confidence courses, networking with other kids, and learning to disconnect. Which can be great. But if that was the case they’d advertise it. At worst, (and people are trying to escape so … yeah) it’s a crash course in manhood type place where they think Hollywood’s version of basic military training is too soft.