<p>After learning about the programming at SRA in previous episodes, former students explain the mental and emotional impacts of their experience at the school and what readjusting to &quot;normal life&quot; is like after leaving. This episode, we also explore the marketing success troubled teen industry programs employ to continue to attract parents desperate to help their children, while silencing those who attempt to speak up about the programs. </p>

Episode 5: Phase 5

“Troubled Treatment” is a serial investigative podcast examining one small, therapeutic boarding school in Spring Valley, Arizona, called Spring Ridge Academy. The school is one of many that existed in a network commonly referred to as the “troubled teen industry,” which markets itself as a supportive and caring environment for teenagers to heal from trauma and personal struggles and develop as a young individual. However, former students have spoken out about traumatic and even abusive experiences in the “therapeutic” program that was meant to help them. https://troubledtreatment.myportfolio.