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Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry TTI What is the Troubled Teen Industry. The troubled teen industry is a deeply controversial and often harmful network of private residential facilities that prey on the fears of desperate parents. Promising to fix troubled youth these programsranging from therapeutic boarding schools to wilderness campsare frequently characterized by abusive practices including physical emotional and psychological mistreatment. Many teens subjected to these programs report traumatic experiences such as excessive punishment isolation and neglect all while receiving inadequate or nonexistent mental health care.