Troubled, Kenneth R. Rosen
Troubled, Kenneth R. Rosen
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Troubled
The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs

Author: Kenneth R. Rosen

Narrator: Ray Chase

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2021

Synopsis

A New York Times Editor’s Choice
One of Newsweek’s Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2021
Named a Bustle Best Book of 2021An award-winning journalist’s breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails.In the middle of the night, they are vanished.Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control—suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage—are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these “troubled teens” fear it’s their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever.Acclaimed journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out at these programs. He lived it. In Troubled, Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on their own scarred journeys through the programs into adulthood. Based on three years of reporting and more than one hundred interviews with other clients, their parents, psychologists, and health-care professionals, Troubled combines harrowing storytelling with investigative journalism to expose the disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry.Not without hope, Troubled ultimately delivers an emotional, crucial tapestry of coming of age, neglect, exploitation, trauma, and fraught redemption.

About Kenneth R. Rosen

Kenneth R. Rosen has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, VQR, and the Atlantic. He is a contributing writer at WIRED and the author of Bulletproof Vest. He spent six years at the New York Times, his hometown newspaper, and now divides his time between northern Italy and Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.kennethrrosen.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brianna

As someone who has spent just under a year in a residential treatment facility in my teens, I had to jump and request a copy. My time in treatment is not dissimilar to what was presented in Troubled – forced to adapt to the rules of the program, but not actually receiving “real world” help. Troubled......more

Goodreads review by Rick

One of the major problems I’ve noticed with trauma is that it messes with your memory. The emotional charge of a traumatic event blurs things together. Swirling those memories into each other like paint dripped into a bucket. Days disappear, weeks feel like months. It’s like trying to put a harness......more

Quotes

“Newsweek’s own Rosen draws on his own experience and more than 100 interviews in this brutally frank expose of America’s ‘tough love’ programs, following four graduates on their journey to adulthood and revealing the disturbing truth about the redirection industry.” —Newsweek“His narrative—anchored by four young adults sent to similar ‘tough love’ environments—shows that many programs inflict lasting damage on the people they claim to help. Ultimately, the book makes a strong case for reforming the practice.” —The New York Times“The stories are enlightening and engaging even as they reveal the shady, often abusive tactics used to snap these troubled children into behaving in a way that society deems acceptable. This book is a necessary exposé for any parent who has considered sending their child to one of these camps. Rosen also gives voice to the thousands who have gone through these programs, and the text should be helpful in encouraging them to speak out about their experiences…Highly charged personal stories coalesce into a frank disclosure about the ‘forced redirection of wayward teenagers.’” —Kirkus Reviews

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