I can attest to this being the case. I actually majored in psychology, at some point I'll be going back for my grad degree in counseling. Right now I'm working at a rehab group home for teenagers
Our therapists are the laziest, most selfish, entitled, spoiled, indifferent, most useless pieces of trash I've EVER had the displeasure of dealing with. They do not actually give a damn about any of these kids, they put them off and put them off, they have as little interaction with them as they can manage to get away with, they know nothing about their actual personalities or behaviors despite them living in a fucking group home where they can be monitored literally 24 hours a day. They reward ones who very clearly should not be rewarded, and punish ones very harshly for minor things when their overall level of improvement is going well.
"We" (and I say that loosely, as over the last 2 years my ability to do my job has been removed slowly but steadily until I'm now just a glorified babysitter, as the management has staffed the place with inept dullards and women who cant relate to the male clients on their own level and thus cannot even talk to them most of the time, and back when we had female clients the women DESPISED them and would treat them incredibly poorly in your typical "old used up unwanted cunt hates pretty young girl" situation, seriously the unrestrained bitterness I've seen out of some of these old cunts is hilarious, you can FEEL the fucking anger and resentment radiating off them, or you could before we stopped taking girl clients, which also pisses me off, the boys used to tell the girls things to impress them, the girls would gossip to the male staff to try to get cozy with them and curry favors, and me and another guy knew how to use this/them to help keep the place safe, since we stopped taking girls? there have been numerous instances of the boys sneaking in drugs or phones or other things.. but nah it was "to difficult to deal with" according to the all female ownership/therapists, or in other words "fuck those young pretty girls, they make me feel bad about myself"… oh right then theres the fact that THREE TIMES now we've had female employees who have gotten grossly inappropriate with the kids, one was rumored to have even jerked one boy off while in an area without cameras, another was very touchy feely with a girl kid but her termination came after she was caught taking a nap in said girls bed during the day, the last was basically a stalker who was pursuing one of the males, but NONE of them were fired for the sexual infractions, they were all fired for unrelated things, one woman hit a boy, the napping thing, and the other for showing up late… which means they can all go on to do the same thing again at another place, all because management was to lazy to compile evidence and give it to the state and have them charged for their actions, that and they dont want the "blemish" on their own record so they'd rather shove the problem off on some other place) only have a successful rehab rate of like 30% or some shit, ie: only 30% graduate the problem AND remain sober for 6+ months or until they're off probation.
Oh right, did I mention all our therapists are female and currently all our clients male? Also they're all old women in their 40s or older, and cannot in any way relate to these teenage boys? The prescribing shrink on staff doesnt even bother to ever meet with the kids after their initial meeting when they first get there. He just reads reports from the therapists about what they think should be done, and then does it. Hes also the most feminine faggot you could imagine and in his 50s or so, so ALSO unable to relate to masculine teenage boys.
Yeah… this is the average state funded facility dealing with teenagers with behavioral and drug problems. The rest in the area are even worse than this place. None of these places help or improve these kids lives. And it all boils down to two things. The management/therapists not giving one fucking damn and being lazy as hell, and EVERYONE being totally unable to relate to or talk to these kids on their own level.
I mean, fuck all, we had a kid at one point with VERY FUCKING OBVIOUS bipolar disorder… he was never once treated for it nor was it even considered by either the initial outside clinical review of him by the state, nor by the "therapy team" at our facility.
So yeah, thats about how this whole shebang works/looks from the inside. Its laughable and terrible at the same time.