Search results
Jun 25, 2018 · In the 1960s, the CEDU family claimed it offered “what some call ‘the fountain of youth for youth’ and an opportunity to regain normalcy.” In the 1970s, CEDU promoted itself as a “youth...
Jul 19, 2022 · The Early Years : 1960–1967. It was the 1960s and many cults were in their formative stages. This is only one movement that came into existence at this crucial time in American history. It is...
Dec 23, 2019 · In the 1960s and early ’70s, CEDU was more commonly called a “drug rehab” and a “self-help communal home” and a “self-help center” and an “alternative community” and a “foundation” and a “family.”
CEDU Educational Services, Inc., known simply as CEDU (pronounced see-doo), was a company founded in 1967 by Mel Wasserman and associated with the troubled teen industry.
Jun 8, 2020 · Lisa and Wayne Yuen felt they were running out of options for helping their 16-year-old son, Daniel, who was both socially withdrawn and acting out at school. The Edison, New Jersey couple took him to a number of psychiatrists and eventually decided to send him to a specialized school in San Bernardino, California in January 2004.
- Erik Hawkins
At the heart of the Cedu program was a philosophy that had grown out of various self-help movements of the 1960s and ’70s, such as Lifespring, Werner Erhard’s EST, and most directly, from Charles E. Dederich’s “Synanon” cult, “church,” and street-level heroin-cure program.
People also ask
Where did CEDU come from?
Why is CEDU school a cult?
What is the CEDU program?
Why did CEDU go out of business?
CEDU's schools used the confrontation model of Synanon. The CEDU model was widely influential on the development of parent-choice, private-pay residential programs. People originally inspired by their CEDU experience developed or strongly influenced a significant number of the schools in the therapeutic boarding school industry.
