troubled teens

Camps for troubled teens is a sort of trope one sees in Hollywood films, but they do also exist in real life, in several forms.

Most of us are familiar with troublesome "conversion" camps; establishments that attempt to condition people out of homosexuality using dangerous and ineffective methods. We are also familiar with "fat camps," which try to encourage a spike in weight loss.

But there are many, with many different functions. And Hollywood has yet to explore just how varied those stories can be.