wilderness programs
Nature-based therapeutic camps
Wilderness programs are therapeutic interventions that take troubled adolescents into remote outdoor settings for weeks or months.
Participants hike, camp, and perform survival tasks while receiving counseling, the theory being that nature and physical challenge break destructive patterns.
The industry ranges from legitimate therapeutic operations to controversial boot camps accused of abuse and negligence.
Parents typically enroll resistant teens involuntarily: They sent him to a wilderness program after his third arrest.
- campTemporary outdoor shelter site
- outdoor educationInstruction in natural settings
- survival skillsKnowledge for staying alive
- primitive skillsPre-industrial survival abilities
- bushcraftWilderness survival skill set
adventure · adolescents · outdoor · personal growth · troubled teens · interventions · group dynamics · expeditions · self-reliance · character development · youth empowerment · rite of passage · field studies · nature immersion · environmental stewardship · leave no trace · team building · outdoor leadership
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wilderness programsinstitutional care
Professional supervision in facilities
outpatient therapy · psychiatric hospitals · clinical settings · boarding schools · group homes
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Psychological treatment via conversation
cognitive behavioral therapy · psychoanalysis · medication management · individual counseling
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