(Screams) OK I'm dying. There is a video shown in court in the trial of Julie Ponder and Connell Watkins, who wrapped a ten-year-old girl, Candace Newmaker, in a blanket, sat on her and killed her. Lien rubs the boys restrained body and face with a photo of his biological mother. I cant do it. Feinberg finally lost his Colorado social work license in 2010. The convictions came almost a year to the day after a video camera recorded the four Colorado therapists killing Candace, while Jeane Newmaker, a pediatric nurse practitioner from Durham, NC, watched. s highly controlling methods, Holding Therapy, and prone coercive restraint was aired by, of this program, British psychiatrist Peter Fonagy comments: I think there's a real danger in assuming that we know what's going on in the child's mind. The Death of Candace Newmaker. Note that the boys right arm is pinned behind Feinbergs back, while the other arm is restrained by the therapist or his assistant, Margaret Meineke. User Created Clips from This Video. Thomas has also been holding week-long camps in the United States where parents apply Attachment Therapy parenting methods directly on their children. (Watkins tells McDaniel and St. Clair to take a break. The treatment, part of a two-week intensive session, cost the single mother $7,000, but Jeane agreed to it nonetheless, traveling across the country with her daughter for the help. Psychologist Robert Zaslow, an early proponent of Rage Reduction, was a consultant for this scene. After violating their rules one time too often, the Department decided to take Elmores children for good. 08:53 -- I can't do it! It sounds the alarm about the growth of pseudoscience and unvalidated practices in psychotherapy. On April 18, 2000, the two "psychotherapists," together with two "assistants," suffocated 10-year-old Candace Newmaker by wrapping her 70-pound body in a flannel sheet, piling on eight pillows and 673 pounds of adults. . (Attachment Therapists typically claim that this does not constitute coercive restraint.). The other two people who had held the pillows in the video were given 10 years probation for criminally negligent child abuse and sentenced to serve 1,000 hours of community service as part of a plea bargain. She vomited and defecated inside the sheet, and ultimately asphyxiated, likely a full 20 minutes before Watkins unwrapped her, as the last minutes of the video show no sound coming from her. You have to be really strong to live a life, a human life. So when she exits the flannel womb, she is able to trust, love, and surrender authority to her hopeful mother waiting nearby. . Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. This film continues to demonize adopted children as bad seeds. Part 14 shown here enacts a toned-down version of Holding Therapy. The defense says Candace's death was a tragic accident and that the child suffered from a heart condition the two therapists were unaware of before the session. It is not uncommon for children who do not respond to AT to be left for months or years with the therapist and TFPs after the intensive for ongoing treatment at a cost of $5,000 to $8,750 a month. Numerous times, Watkins and others required this naturally energetic 10-year-old to sit absolutely motionless for 10, 20, and 30 minutes at a time. It appears that Attachment Therapys insistence on eye contact today may date back to when it was used as an autism treatment. Today jurors saw that Candace's session went tragically wrong as the 70-minute video showed the girl pleading with Watkins and Ponder to let her out of the blanket. It was filmed at the Cascade Family Center in Utah and demonstrates several styles of Attachment Therapy: Holding Therapy (child in lap with its arm pinned behind the womans back), Compression Therapy (woman lying on top of child), and wrapping. They continued the session even when Candace complained of nausea, the need to defecate and a lack of air, and even after she urinated. 2002-09-17T15:15:09-04:00 https: . Lien rubs the boys restrained body and face with a photo of his biological mother. McDaniel takes Watkins' place. Watkins: Just go ahead and die. Watkins: Sometimes it takes 18 hours to be born. The story had international coverage.http://www.wikividi.com____________________________________Shortcuts to chapters:00:00:29 History00:01:18 Attachment therapy00:04:25 Convictions00:05:18 Effects____________________________________Copyright WikiVidi.Licensed under Creative Commons.Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Newmaker Her medications to regulate her mood and behavior would change multiple times over the following two weeks of therapy and she was no longer given her . In a presentation Lien made that same year, he claimed to be running pilot treatment programs for the child welfare departments of four Colorado counties: Larimer, Arapahoe, Denver, and Saguache. "I thought she [Candace] was dead. Mother and daughter could then begin anew the process of attachment by re-living Candaces early childhood development.Or so it was supposed to happen in theory. It was around this time that Nancy was working for the Attachment Center at Evergreen with, , as a co-therapist and therapeutic foster parent. Take note of Magids leading questioning which appear to be attempts to demonize children with Attachment Disorder., found to these parenting methods, along with Attachment Therapy and the unrecognized diagnosis Attachment Disorder, to be inappropriate for all children; APSAC also recommends that child welfare workers investigate the use of these parenting methods as suspected abuse.. Newmaker: I'm so excited to have this baby. 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Typical of Attachment Therapy, Ryan promotes an unrecognized definition of RAD and attributes numerous violent and negative features to RAD. : Colorado Attachment Therapist Ken Magid, LCSW, interviews Beth Thomas, the adopted daughter of, . Today jurors saw that Candace's session went tragically wrong as the 70-minute video showed the girl pleading with Watkins and Ponder to let her out of the blanket. Connell Watkins, the therapist who authorized the rebirthing of Candace Newmaker. When not in therapy, the boy was subjected to further compliance training at the home of therapeutic parents. Comparison with the videos of Candace Newmakers Attachment Therapy, show at the trial of her therapists, indicates that these sessions are largely scripted, e.g. When not in therapy, the boy was subjected to further compliance training at the home of therapeutic parents. Comparison with the videos of. This clip is from a training tape made by. For years, Colorado State and county agencies (e.g. The videotapes were shown at the trial to a packed courtroom. Ponder: Quitter, quitter, quitter, quitter, quit, quit, quit, quit. . [Compared to Candace's 70-minute session, the two therapists' longest previous rebirthing sessions lasted only 6 minutes.]. Candace Newmaker shortly before her death. Ponder: So imagine yourself as a teeny little baby inside your mother's womb and what it felt like. and Nikolaas Tinbergen, a famous Dutch ethologist who believed that coercive restraint and forced eye contact could cure autism though there was no evidence supporting this claim. Katie Serena is a New York City-based writer and a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Your email address will not be published. For real. Psychodrama is not considered appropriate for children age 16 and under, but it is unlikely that this would be considered appropriate for anyone. This film continues to demonize adopted children as bad seeds. Part 14 shown here enacts a toned-down version of Holding Therapy. , Nancy Thomas in Russia, 2017In this presentation, Nancy Thomas again demonstrates that her approach to treatment and parenting has not changed, this time taking it to Russia. . Note that the boy is physically restrained: his right arm is pinned behind Lien's back, while Konnie Stoltz, an IACD therapeutic foster mother, holds the left arm. I can understand why. If you stay in there youre going to die and your mommys going to die.. I hope you enjoyed the video and if you did let me know in the comments down below. The Candace Newmaker case is a truly heartbreaking event that occurred in 2000 involving a 10-year-old girl named Candace Tiara Elmore. I'm going to have a brand new baby. (No response) (Takes another pillow from Newmaker.) [Photo: Rocky Mountain News)]. 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Charged with reckless child abuse resulting in death, Watkins and Ponder could face up to 48 years in prison if convicted. For just over 70 minutes, Candace Newmaker struggled as she was slowly smothered to death. This scholarly book investigates the entire phenomenon of Attachment Therapy, focused through the lens of the infamous case surrounding the life and death of Candace Newmaker. Watkins: It's not always easy to live. (AD) diagnosis and insists that conventional approaches are not effective. Coil) was paroled after seven years in prison to serve out the remainder of her 16-year sentence in a Denver halfway house. Thank you to the Denver Rocky Mountain News for the story. Efforts to revive her failed and medical examiners later determined she died of asphyxiation. At the beginning of the video, Watkins instructs the 10-year-old Candace to lie on the ground on top of a sheet and curl up in the fetal position. 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