wilderness program
Therapeutic backcountry experience
A wilderness program is a therapeutic intervention, typically for troubled adolescents, that uses outdoor survival activities and isolation from normal life to address behavioral or psychological issues.
Participants live in remote settings, learning primitive skills while receiving counseling.
The industry has faced scrutiny for abusive practices at some programs, and parents sometimes arrange to have resistant teens transported against their will.
They sent him to a wilderness program in Utah after he got expelled.
- outdoorOutside, not indoors
- adolescentsYouth approaching maturity
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- mental healthEmotional and cognitive well-being
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
troubled teens · rehabilitation · second chance · personal growth · resilience · intervention · hiking · self-reliance · camping · boot camp · backpacking · mountain expedition · behavior modification · outdoor education · empowerment · team building · youth leadership · nature immersion
- residential facilitiesnursing home, assisted living, group home, care home, foster home
- juvenile detentionjuvenile hall, juvenile facility, juvie, reform school, detention center
wilderness programpsychiatric hospital
Facility for mental treatment
outpatient therapy · talk therapy · psychiatric ward · mental health clinic · group therapy
wilderness programsummer camp
Seasonal youth retreat
day camp · home environment · enrichment program · sports camp · after-school program
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