Welcome to the new Mental Health Minis series! Every Monday, we will feature a 5-minute mini-episode with content from a past She Persisted episode. This week's mini is a solo episode on DBT skills! I'm giving you a crash course on five of my favorite mental health coping skills that you need to know.

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#197 Today's guest is Katherine Kubler— a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and editor. She recently directed and executive produced the Netflix original documentary series The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping, which exposes the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry. In this episode, we discuss:

+ Katherine's firsthand experience in the troubled teen industry (TTI) & how it led to her creating The Program

+ My experience in the TTI & what it's like to unpack it years later

+ How survivors can struggle to process their experiences in these programs

+ Red flags that a treatment program is part of the TTI

+ If there's any evidence that TTI programs do help teens & the overall lack of research out there on TTI programs

+ What Katherine has learned about the TTI since the documentary has come out

+ The fake high school diplomas that many programs give out

+ Advice for parents & teens considering residential treatment programs

Katherine's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katherinekubler

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+ Help At Any Cost

+ She Persisted Ep. 196

+ Katherine's website

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#196 Today's guest is Maia Szalavitz— an award-winning author and journalist. She first advocated against the Troubled Teen Industry in her 2006 book, Help at Any Cost, and has since written several New York Times articles and appeared in the 2024 Netflix documentary, The Program, to discuss this dangerous industry further. In this episode, we discuss:

+ The history of the troubled-teen industry & what it looks like today

+ What proper mental health care for teenagers should look like

+ Why teens with substance abuse or behavioral issues can't succeed in troubled teen programs

+ My personal troubled-teen industry experience

+ The real reasons why parents are sending their kids away to treatment programs

+ The dangerous accountability model behind many troubled teen programs

+ The unethical ways that troubled-teen programs earn massive profits

+ The trauma that troubled teen survivors face due to these programs

+ Regulations that could eliminate these programs for good

MENTIONED

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+ New York Times article

+ Trails Carolina article

+ Maia's Website

+ Unsilenced

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