Download or read book Proceedings of the Wilderness Psychology Group Annual Conference written by Wilderness Psychology Group. Annual Conference and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wilderness Psychology Group written by Wilderness Psychology Group. Annual Conference and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wilderness Psychology Group Third Annual Conference 1982 Proceedings written by Wilderness Psychology Group. Annual Conference and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Third Annual Conference 1982 Proceedings Wilderness Psychology Group July 8 9 1982 Division of Forestry West Virginia University written by Wilderness Psychology Group. Annual Conference and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wilderness Therapy for Women written by Ellen Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of its kind devoted to the symbolic value of wilderness accomplishments to women’s mental health. Wilderness Therapy for Women unites women with nature and each other by lifting the social constraints surrounding women in adventure pursuits. It offers women a new method of healing while developing an appreciation for the uniqueness of the environment. Daring experiences in the outdoors rekindles a sense of strength and a respect for the provider of that strength. A therapeutic experience from the outdoors provides women with an awareness of their capabilities to strengthen and preserve themselves and their surroundings. This book is divided into four parts: Theoretical Perspectives, Wilderness Therapy in Action, Special Populations, and Personal Narratives. Readers will find many topics of interest including: Body image and wilderness therapy The therapeutic value of the wilderness Ethical considerations of experiential therapy Ropes courses for women All-women’s river trips Special populations: rape and incest survivors, welfare mothers, and mid-life women. Intended as a guide book, Wilderness Therapy for Women is ideal for mental health professionals who are either practicing wilderness therapy or merely inquisitive about it. Outfitters and professional outdoor leaders will benefit from chapters on theory, applications, and special populations. Outdoor program administrators and educators who must remain on the cutting edge of their industry will also profit from this book.

Download or read book Adventure Therapy written by Michael A. Gass and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution and history of adventure therapy, as chronicled in the second chapter of this book, well demonstrates how far this field has evolved from a “divergent therapy” into an efficacious form of therapy that engages clients on cognitive, affective, and behavioral levels. Adventure Therapy is written by three professionals who have been at the forefront of the field since its infancy. The theory, techniques, research, and case studies they present are the cutting edge of this field. The authors focus on: • the theory substantiating adventure therapy • illustrations that exemplify best practices • the research validating the immediate as well as long-term effects of adventure therapy, when properly conducted. This book is the leading academic text, professional reference, and training resource for adventure therapy practices in the field of mental health. It is appropriate for a wide range of audiences, including beginner and experienced therapists, as well as graduate students.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Adolescence written by Roger J.R. Levesque and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 3161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Encyclopedia of Adolescence – with entries presented in easy-to-access A to Z format – serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. By making full use of Springer’s print and online flexibility, the Encyclopedia is at the forefront of efforts to advance the field by pushing and creating new boundaries and areas of study that further our understanding of adolescents and their place in society. Substantively, the Encyclopedia draws from four major areas of research relating to adolescence. The first broad area includes research relating to "Self, Identity and Development in Adolescence". This area covers research relating to identity, from early adolescence through emerging adulthood; basic aspects of development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social); and foundational developmental theories. In addition, this area focuses on various types of identity: gender, sexual, civic, moral, political, racial, spiritual, religious, and so forth. The second broad area centers on "Adolescents’ Social and Personal Relationships". This area of research examines the nature and influence of a variety of important relationships, including family, peer, friends, sexual and romantic as well as significant nonparental adults. The third area examines "Adolescents in Social Institutions". This area of research centers on the influence and nature of important institutions that serve as the socializing contexts for adolescents. These major institutions include schools, religious groups, justice systems, medical fields, cultural contexts, media, legal systems, economic structures, and youth organizations. "Adolescent Mental Health" constitutes the last major area of research. This broad area of research focuses on the wide variety of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors relating to mental health, from psychopathology to thriving. Major topic examples include deviance, violence, crime, pathology (DSM), normalcy, risk, victimization, disabilities, flow, and positive youth development.

Download or read book Wilderness Therapy written by Jennifer Lou Davis-Berman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adventure Therapy written by Michael A. Gass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised text describes the theory substantiating adventure therapy, demonstrates best practices in the field, and presents research validating the immediate and long-term effects of adventure therapy. A leading text in the field of adventure therapy, outdoor behavioral healthcare, and wilderness therapy, the book is written by three professionals who have been at the forefront of the field since its infancy. This new edition includes fully updated chapters to reflect the immense changes in the field since the first edition was written in 2010. It serves to provide information detailing what is occurring with clients as well as how it occurs. This book provides an invaluable reference for the seasoned professional and is a required source of information and examination for the beginning professional. It is a great training resource for adventure therapy practices in the field of mental health.

Download or read book Psychological Development of Borderline Adolescents in Wilderness Therapy written by Stephanie Joyce Gubin Nurenberg and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored selected changes in borderline adolescents expected to be associated with their participation in a Wilderness therapy group. Evidence of psychological growth was sought in test/retest comparisons of the subjects' ego functioning, self-reports of anxiety and depression, ability to separate from parents and locus of control. The theoretical works of Mahler, Winnicott and Masterson provided the major theoretical background for the study. A naturalistic panel design was employed using a sample of convenience. The sample consisted of thirteen adolescents, between the ages of fourteen and nineteen, who were involved in Wilderness group therapy. The adolescents were interviewed at two points in time separated by a ten month interval. The measurements used were the Ego Strength Scale, the Nowicki-Strickland Scale of Externality, two modified Thematic Apperception Test cards (focused on separation issues) and the Costello-Comery Scale of depression and anxiety. A semi-structured interview served to corroborate quantatative findings. The findings suggested that the adolescents felt greater impulse control, autonomy, relatedness and self-esteem Scores on a subtest for greater frustration tolerance were not statistically significant. The subjects perveived themselves as more separated from parents, less depressed and anxious, and more internally-oriented. The interviews reflected similar findings. Certain aspects of Wilderness group therapy such as the stress factor, the leader as good rapprochement mother, and the holding environment of the group, appeared to encourage adolescents' renegotiation of earlier developmental isues as they tackled age-appropriate tasks. The leaders and the group, as transitional phenomena, might also have enabled the adolescents to internalize their therapeutic experience.

Download or read book Outdoor Therapies written by Nevin J. Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the leading voices of international researchers and practitioners, Outdoor Therapies provides readers with an overview of practices for the helping professions. Sharing outdoor approaches ranging from garden therapy to wilderness therapy and from equine-assisted therapy to surf therapy, Harper and Dobud have drawn common threads from therapeutic practices that integrate connection with nature and experiential activity to redefine the "person-in-environment" approach to human health and well-being. Readers will learn about the benefits and advantages of helping clients get the treatment, service, and care they need outside of conventional, office-based therapies. Providing readers with a range of approaches that can be utilized across a variety of practice settings and populations, this book is essential reading for students, practitioners, theorists, and researchers in counseling, social work, youth work, occupational therapy, and psychology.

Download or read book Adventure Group Psychotherapy written by Tony G. Alvarez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure Group Psychotherapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment explores what is necessary for an experiential therapy group to function effectively, and the practical skills needed to inspire success. The authors describe how to use activities in a manner that produces the greatest opportunity for clients to reach their goals. Issues such as how to actively assess client functioning in the group, how to select the appropriate activity, how to shape an effective environment, and how to help clients process their experience are a few of the aspects examined to help clients move toward their goals. The practical skills the authors describe enable readers to immediately learn and apply their practice with groups. This book will be an important tool in any group therapy class, in practice settings to train practitioners, and for any clinician trying to expand their group work capabilities.

Download or read book Ecotherapy written by Linda Buzzell and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the editors of this new volume have often been asked: Where can I find out more about the psyche–world connection? How can I do hands–on work in this area? Ecotherapy was compiled to answer these and other urgent questions. Ecotherapy, or applied ecopsychology, encompasses a broad range of nature–based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the crucial fact that people are inseparable from the rest of nature and nurtured by healthy interaction with the Earth. Leaders in the field, including Robert Greenway, and Mary Watkins, contribute essays that take into account the latest scientific understandings and the deepest indigenous wisdom. Other key thinkers, from Bill McKibben to Richard Louv to Joanna Macy, explore the links among ecotherapy, spiritual development, and restoring community. As mental–health professionals find themselves challenged to provide hard evidence that their practices actually work, and as costs for traditional modes of psychotherapy rise rapidly out of sight, this book offers practitioners and interested lay readers alike a spectrum of safe, effective alternative approaches backed by a growing body of research.

Download or read book Stories from the Field written by Will White and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness therapy for "wayward teens" has been in existence, in some form, for over a hundred and thirty years but until now, no comprehensive history existed of the many influences that shaped its evolution. Following up on his doctoral dissertation, Will White looks back and constructs a thorough history from 1860-1988, opening Stories from the Field with the 19th century character camps of New England and progressing over the decades, with the invitation to young women and eventually, adolescents in need of therapeutic help. Will first assimilates the emergent influences of the prevailing social theory, regarding the hazards of leisure in the burgeoning upper class of America, the iconography of outdoor adventures and a few philanthropic visionaries. In this way, Stories from the Field expands the staid history of dates and names, breathing life into the characters and context of old. Will condenses the disparate trends of a century of experimentation into a cogent framework of what is now loosely called "wilderness therapy." Atop this rich chronicle of the previously unsung originators, Will then invited recent game-changers to add to the communal story, providing their enhancements and visions to the account of the continuously evolving treatment model of "outdoor behavioral healthcare." The other pages hold contemporary Stories from the Field, providing narrative accounts from founders and/or leaders of wilderness therapy organizations developed since 1988 and which provide treatment for families today. These authors have contributed their company stories to help illuminate the diversity and intentions of the present field, confirm the validity and attention that supports the work, and knowing full-well that this inspires tomorrow's innovators to climb higher and doing even better work for the families we serve.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Wilderness Psychology Group Annual Conference August 14 15 1980 New England Center for Continuing Education Durham New Hampshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding Wilderness Therapy written by Dr Karson Bryan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a transformative journey into the heart of therapeutic exploration with "Understanding Wilderness Therapy." This groundbreaking guide is not just a book; it's a key to unlocking the profound benefits of wilderness therapy, an essential companion for those seeking a deeper connection between nature and the human psyche. Discover the Wilderness Within: INTRODUCTION Dive headfirst into the world of wilderness therapy, unraveling the secrets of its origin and the profound impact it can have on individuals and groups alike. THE BASICS OF THERAPY IN THE WILDERNESS Lay the foundation for your journey, exploring the fundamental principles that make wilderness therapy a unique and powerful form of healing. THERAPEUTIC METHODS Uncover a plethora of therapeutic techniques designed to harness the untamed beauty of nature, providing a dynamic backdrop for personal growth and transformation. MORAL DETERMINATIONS Navigate the moral compass of wilderness therapy, understanding the ethical considerations that guide practitioners toward responsible and effective interventions. THE ENCOUNTER IN THE WILDERNESS Witness the profound encounters that unfold when individuals connect with nature, and explore the impact of these experiences on mental and emotional well-being. TOOLS AND DEVICES Equip yourself with the essential tools and devices that amplify the therapeutic potential of the wilderness, creating a synergy between nature and psychological healing. SENSE OF NATURE AND SURVIVAL EXPERTISE Delve into the intricate relationship between the human senses, survival instincts, and the therapeutic power embedded in nature. PARTICIPANTS AS WELL AS GROUPS Explore the dynamics of individual and group participation, unraveling the unique benefits that arise when navigating the wilderness together. GROUP AND ADULT COUNSELING Gain insights into effective counseling strategies within a group dynamic and discover the tailored approaches necessary for adult participants. PARTICULAR POPULATIONS Illuminate the specialized considerations for diverse populations, understanding how wilderness therapy can cater to the unique needs of individuals across various demographics. SAFETY AS WELL AS RISK CONTROL Navigate the delicate balance between adventure and safety, ensuring a secure environment while embracing the transformative power of controlled risk. "Understanding Wilderness Therapy" is not just a manual; it's a gateway to unlocking the profound healing potential that lies within the heart of nature. As you journey through the pages, you'll find yourself equipped with the knowledge to facilitate transformative experiences, foster resilience, and guide individuals on a path toward holistic well-being. Don't let this opportunity slip away. Embrace the power of wilderness therapy and transform lives. Grab your copy now and embark on a journey that transcends the pages-a journey toward a deeper understanding of the therapeutic magic that unfolds when nature becomes the canvas for healing. Your transformative adventure begins here! GRAB YOUR COPY