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S_Golightley

@sgolightley.bsky.social
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Lecturer & ‘troubled teen industry' survivor-researcher. Mad Studies - Critical Disability Studies - Social Work. www.strath.ac.uk/staff/golightleysa…

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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you to @kristahessey.bsky.social and the team at Global News for their brilliant investigative journalism on the Venture Academy - a therapeutic boarding school in Canada. This is a must-read.
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Krista Hessey @kristahessey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Golightley says total control is a key "to the functionality of these programs" because it pressures kids to fall in line. “The institutions themselves are set up in such a way that can be really traumatizing…because people are being stripped of their autonomy and they’re being coerced to comply.”
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Krista Hessey @kristahessey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Little is known about the scale of the for-profit, or private, industry in Canada. Researcher @sgolightley.bsky.social, who likened Venture's program to other Troubled Teen institutions she's studied in the U.S., wants to change that. hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Canadian Therapeutic Boarding School Research Study
The research study aims to gain understanding of the types of therapeutic boarding schools that have operated in Canada. Therapeutic boarding schools are programs that seek to reform young people labe...
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I'm launching a new study on therapeutic boarding schools in Canada. I am looking for people who have previously been enrolled in a Canadian therapeutic boarding school. Research includes a brief, confidential online questionnaire. Please spread the word! hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
A research recruitment flyer with a link to the study.
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Vancouver! I will be giving a public talk about my research on the 'troubled teen industry', including soon-to-be-launched research I am conducting on therapeutic boarding schools in Canada. Aug 13th 2pm. Please come join us and help spread the word. www.eventbrite.ca/e/out-of-con...
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‘Out of Control’: Institutional violence and the ‘troubled teen industry’
Learn about private residential behaviour modification programs known as the 'troubled teen industry'.
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excited to be hosting Merrick Pilling at the University of Strathclyde on the 9th of June - talking about the intersections of Mad Studies and trans and queer liberation #MadStudies merrickmadatstrath.eventbrite.co.uk
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Toward Mad Trans Liberation: The Necessity of a Mad-Queer-Trans Lens
Annual Mad Studies Guest Lecture featuring Dr Merrick Pilling, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Tommy James Law @tommyjameslaw.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
BOOM! Town begins process to revoke business license for troubled-teen facility@maiasz.bsky.social @labefana.bsky.social @sgolightley.bsky.social @yep4rights.bsky.social @againstrestraint.com @tktk.bsky.social @dawnjpostesq.bsky.social @annettesmith.bsky.social www.waff.com/2025/04/15/c...
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Courtland town council begins process to revoke business license for troubled-teen facility
A unanimous vote from Cortland’s town council solidifies the council’s plan to revoke the business license of Brighter Path.
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Ailise Bulfin @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This may be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse & the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we'd appreciate a repost) @camillelw.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social @boddice.bsky.social @sgolightley.bsky.social
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Ewwww_dude @thewebsucksnow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Please share our documentary on the troubled teen industry its dangerous for children especially 🏳️‍🌈queer ones like me🏳️‍⚧️. no child should ever endure this kind of abuse conversion therapy doesn’t work trust me www.thekidsarenotalrightdoc.com/blank-1
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A big moment for work ending abuse in the troubled teen industry. Thank you to all the organisers and survivors who worked so tirelessly to make this happen. We can fight for justice and make a difference together.
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Upcoming seminar on the troubled teen industry - I will be presenting! Free tickets, open to all. www.tickettailor.com/events/child...
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FREE ticket to CYCJ webinar – 'Out of Control': Private 'troubled teen industry' facilities in the USA and the enabling of institutional child abuse – Teams
Summary: Every year in the USA thousands of young people are placed in private reform institutions known as the 'troubled teen ...
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
The Netflix docuseries The Program is about survivors telling their stories of abuse in ‘troubled teen industry’ therapeutic boarding schools. Here’s my take on why the show is so powerful & how institutional abuse thrives in the industry: theconversation.com/the-program-... #TroubledTeenIndustry
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S_Golightley @sgolightley.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Hello to the rest of you who have jumped from the sinking x! Who else is around? I’m a mad studies / critical disability studies + social work academic. I specialise in research on the USA’s so-called ‘troubled teen industry’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Troubling the ‘troubled teen’ industry: Adult reflections on youth experiences of therapeutic bo...
In the United States, thousands of young people reside in private schools aimed at reforming ‘troubled teens’. These ‘troubled teens’ are young people who are c...
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