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COPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.
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Learn about the research conducted to determine the effectiveness of wilderness therapy for troubled teens dealing with emotional and behavioral problems. The use of outdoor therapy has been shown to teach teenagers how to handle their emotions and develop into healthy adults.
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- Adventure Therapy Theory and Research
Adventure therapy uses challenging experiences & being in natural environments to improve psychological dysfunctions in emotion, behavior, and life effectiveness skills. Learn more about the history, theories and findings.
- Boot Camps Don't Work - Does Wilderness Therapy?
A study out of the University of Idaho has shown these types of wilderness therapy interventions to be highly effective, even at a 1-year follow-up. Evaluate the full report of this independent study for more information about the effectiveness of outdoor therapy.
- Managing Risk in the Outdoors
Gil Hallows discusses the importance of safety in outdoor therapeutic programs.
- Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research
In 1999, the UI-WRC formed the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative (OBHRC) at the University of Idaho supported by 12 OBH programs. Learn more about adventure or wilderness therapy.
- Wilderness Therapy Helps Troubled Adolescents
This article by Rob Cooley explains wilderness as a healing resource for adolescents with problem behaviors. For an adolescent experieticing substantial difficulties in navigating the passage into adult-hood, the impact of wilderness time is far more powerful.
- Wilderness Therapy vs. Boot Camps
Outdoor intervention programs have been growing in variety and popularity, but. terms like wilderness programs, wilderness camps, boot camps and wilderness boot camps are being used without clear distinction, definition or meaning. Parents believe they are enrolling their child in a wilderness therapy program when in fact they are enrolling their child in a boot camp in the wilderness.