What is Adventure Therapy? Adventure Therapy helps kids take on new responsibilities, skills, and emotional tools that can lead to healthier attitudes and self-esteem.
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Identifying Depression In Youth With adolescence comes ups and downs. It’s a natural progression, but what happens if your child’s downs are more severe? What could they lead toward? What are they leading toward? What of the time sensitive time period in high school, when there’s little to no room for behavior issues or …
Photography, Perspective, Life Recently, I took an outdoor photography class which emphasized the ‘chasing the light.’ We roamed through an area where I have spent many years camping and climbing, the City of Rocks in southern Idaho. Being introduced to the beauty of this landscape while looking through a new set of eyes awakened a …
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Teen Mental Health And Wilderness Therapy Teens suffer a staggering amount of inner and outer conflict, but anxiety and depression aren’t impossible to treat if you address the issues in a more comprehensive, direct way. Instead of 45-minute treatment sessions or the occasional outpatient treatment for teen mental health, wilderness therapy takes teens outside of …
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Disillusioned Struggling Teens and Wilderness Therapy If talking to your teen equates to attitude, disrespect, rebellion, anger and/or detachment, it may be reflective of a sprawling shifting viewpoint. Growing up as a teen today is nothing like it was even 10 years ago. Let’s look at what affects teens today, so we can better learn …
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blueFire on NPR An NPR Report shared the struggle of maintaining a wilderness area and trying to build a local economy. Local people do not want to negatively impact wilderness areas but still want the opportunity to be apart of a thriving economy. blueFire respects the environment, merging a pristine wilderness area and a thriving rural economy- creating jobs, …
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Bootcamps: Not A Worthy Model For Lasting Change Bootcamps have been popping up since the 90s, existing to whip a teen in shape through rigorous discipline and punishment. Parents send their children off hoping they finally learn the consequences for their actions as an incentive to be a better person. Bootcamps Create Lasting Change? We think not. …
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