A Closer Look at Involuntary Treatment and the Use of Transport Service in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare – Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH or wilderness therapy) is an out-of-home adolescent treatment option serving tens of thousands of youths annually for behavioral, substance, and mental health issues in the United States. About half of OBH participants attend […]
Wilderness therapy settings: An industry in need of legal and regulatory oversight – This article reviews wilderness therapy and other outdoor programs that vary in their structure and focus. It also 1) looks at a number of domestic and international lawsuits; 2) examines the minimal extent to which there has been […]
Totalistic Teen Treatment: A Qualitative Analysis of Retrospective Accounts – This research used a purposeful stratified sampling technique to identify interview participants with a wide range of experiences within 25 different totalistic teen programs. Data were collected in […]
The Troubled Teen Industry: Commodifying Disability and Capitalizing on Fear – The “Troubled Teen” behavior reform industry is comprised of financially interconnected wilderness programs, residential treatment centers, and reform schools that incarcerate thousands of minors each year by marketing a […]
Cultural Islands: The Subjective Experience of Treatment and Maltreatment within Insular Programs – This is a brief, selective summary of a thesis research project titled “Adult Perspectives on Totalistic Teen Treatment: Experiences and Impact.” This project was approved by […]
Client perspectives on wilderness therapy as a component of adolescent residential treatment for problematic substance use and mental health issues – Wilderness therapy is a specialized approach to adolescent substance use and mental health treatment. While empirical evidence of positive outcomes grows to support this approach, qualitative understandings are lacking in the […]
An Exploratory Study on Adult Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry’s Therapeutic Boarding Schools and Wilderness Programs – As an increasing number of narrative reports and exploratory studies are being published on the Troubled […]
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