Washington state also has similar laws in place where I worked as a nurse for an 11-17yr old inpatient mental health facility. Parents can be cut completely out of the loop on their children's mental health care - but most are told about medications their kids are put on after their kid signs consent forms and ready to discharge home with new prescriptions (child abuse argument if parents don't fill them). As for the content of their therapy itself, I don't think that's gone over much with parents, if ever. There's nothing parents could do to fight it because it could be used as fuel to the fire of why their kid needs to stay longer away from their "controlling" parent(s). Meanwhile, kids learn new methods to manipulate their parents and the system to get what they think they want. It's absolutely atrocious.