The wilderness therapy industry is struggling in a way it hasn’t since the early 2000s, when national scrutiny followed the deaths of a number of young people in outdoor youth programs.
Wilderness therapy , also known as outdoor behavioral healthcare, is a treatment option for... " In the US a large number of these programs are located in the state of Utah. Incidents of...
4,239 likes, 108 comments - savannaboda - September 17, 2024: "cheers to rewriting my story the last time I was in Utah I was 15 and at a wilderness therapy program for self harm, depression, and a...
The leader in wilderness therapy, RedCliff Ascent is an effective treatment program that offers a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment, for troubled teens ages 13-17.
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a wilderness therapy program more than 1,600 miles away in central Oregon. Katherine would... I was in denial." She eventually transitioned to a therapeutic boarding school in Utah, where...
Share ; Adiel Kaplan, a New York City-based reporter, began reporting this story as a fellow with the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. This story originally featured on Undark. Katherine Gibbons’ life turned upside down on the day in October 2018 when she skipped school, stole a liter of vodka, and drank much of it on the walk back from the grocery store. Her mother, who had been worried about Katherine’s erratic behavior for months, saw the 17-year-ol...
This past weekend, En Garde Arts brought a new multimedia documentary theatre piece to the Kennedy Center. True to the best of its genre, Wilderness strikes right at the core with devastating and moving true stories.Wilderness tells the story of six real troubled teenagers who underwent a wilderness therapy program in Utah, and is anchored by projections of recorded video calls with their parents. Wilderness therapy is relatively new but gaining recognition; it combines cognitive behavioral ther...
Wilderness therapy purports to help teens heal from trauma, overcome behavioural problems and ‘find their true selves’ by embedding with nature. But for many like Kyra Frankowski, this therapy had...
95 likes, 3 comments - 5280magazine - July 25, 2022: "Should Colorado parents think twice before sending their kids to wilderness therapy? Since the 1970s, teenagers across America—including hundre...