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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 · The controversial treatments at Cedu were first popularized in Synanon, a substance abuse treatment program founded in 1958. A recovering alcoholic named Charles Dederich started the program, and his methods “helped” addicts by humiliating and isolating them, forcing them into hard labor and keeping them from sleep, according to Mother Jones .
- Erik Hawkins
What is CEDU? CEDU, initially understood as "see yourself as you are and do something about it," later revealed as the Charles E. Diederich University, is a derivative of the Synanon cult – of which Diederich was the leader.
Jul 19, 2022 · CEDU Educational Services, Inc., is known by the four letter name simply as CEDU (pronounced see-doo) by the survivors of the cult for kids in California. CEDU was the brainchild and was...
The Cedu Documentary, “Surviving Cedu,” from filmmaker Liam Scheff (who was a student there), tells the story of a half-dozen teenagers who were each sent to the Cedu School, variously described to them as a standard boarding school, a wilderness adventure school, or a therapeutic learning environment in the Western mountains of the United ...
Jan 8, 2024 · CEDU operated until 2005, but was promptly purchased by Universal Health Services (UHS) a private-equity firm which owns multiple teen rehabilitation centers today.
Aug 27, 2020 · CEDU program workshops were described by many as a “break you down and build you up again” model for intervention. While this approach may have been effective for some participants, it also threatened to traumatize or retraumatize participants (see 4 for why this could have been a problem).
