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Wilderness therapy, also known as outdoor behavioral healthcare, is a treatment option for behavioral disorders, substance abuse, and mental health issues in adolescents. [1] Patients spend time living outdoors with peers.
The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) is a United States trade organization of therapeutic schools, residential treatment programs, wilderness programs, outdoor therapeutic programs, young adult programs, and home-based residential programs for adolescents and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Adventure therapy and wilderness therapy are variations of outdoor experiential therapy. [1] Outdoor experiential therapy utilizes the outdoors as a treatment modality to promote "rehabilitation, growth, development, and enhancement of an individual's physical, social, and psychological well-being through the application of structured ...
A therapeutic boarding school is a residential school offering therapy for students with emotional or behavioral issues. [1] The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs listed 140 schools and programs as of 2005. [1] [2] Many therapeutic boarding schools in the United States have been connected to the abusive troubled teen ...
The troubled-teen industry has been around for more than a century, but many of the “tough love” tactics used by current programs can be traced back to the first residential drug treatment ...
Teenagers have been participating in tough love behavior modification programs by force or coercion since the 1960s. [4] Many of these programs take place in the wilderness in the style of military recruit training (also known as boot camps) and the teenagers are subjected to rigid discipline, including mandatory marches, physical abuse, solitary confinement, and deprivation of food and sleep.
A WNC therapy camp under investigation for a camper's Feb. 3 death, has responded to a former camper's lawsuit who said she was sexually assaulted. Western NC camp facing probe for child death ...
Aspen Achievement Academy has been a subject of several media reports and works of popular culture: The 1999 book Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild by Gary Ferguson, ISBN 0-312-20008-0 recounts the author's experiences and observations during several months he spent in the wilderness with teens at Aspen Achievement Academy.