S_Golightley
@sgolightley.bsky.social
Lecturer & ‘troubled teen industry' survivor-researcher. Mad Studies - Critical Disability Studies - Social Work. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/golightleysarahdr/
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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.”
“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.”
August 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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.”
“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.”
Hello! Thanks for following
November 26, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Hello! Thanks for following
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It’s fascinating how as youth everyone I know just wanted to be treated like an adult and then as adults everyone is clinging to youthfulness
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October 1, 2023 at 1:26 PM
I have spent the last seven years researching therapeutic boarding schools from a critical survivor-led perspective. My work includes research on anti-LGBTQ+ ‘conversion’ ideology in the programs academic.oup.com/bjsw/article...