Psychiatric Institutionalization of Adolescents The purpose of this research is to e

So that the reported observances may be placed in context, this paper presents relevant information in two discrete categories. These categories are: (1) Information about the Crossroads Hospital facility and the researcher/observer's job position at this facility; (2) Information taken from the existing literature on the responses of adolescent law violators remanded by the Courts to locked psychiatric facilities coupled with a discussion of the researcher's specific observances of the target group while working at the Crossroads Hospital Facility.

Crossroads Hospital is the only full-service psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment facility in the Los Angeles area that is exclusively devoted to adolescent care. The facility lists its overall treatment objectives in its promotional litera

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es as well as in direct observances of adolescents interacting with their families, the researcher observed repeated events and remarks indicative of the fact that the adolescents viewed their parents as failures. Many felt that the parents had failed on a personal, social, and financial level and that they had especially failed as parents. The target group felt a strong sense of rage and resentment over their parents perceived failures, the intensity of which was indicative to the researcher of projection; that is, it was sensed that the youths hid from themselves their personal sense of failure by projecting it onto their parents. This idea that adolescents project or somehow externalize a personal sense of failure has been noted by Zinn (1989) in his discussion of psychiatric hospital treatment for adolescents. Specifically, Zinn notes that the projection of the personal sense of failure is a way in which teens attempt to preserve their sense of self-esteem. In this regard, he states: Thus the problem is not in him (the adolescent) but in something or someone else. This defensive attitude is abetted by the developmental thrust away from dependence on adults and the wish to "go it alone" in order to maintain at least
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