There are many reasons to send an out of control teen to wilderness camp. But before you enroll them into a camp you may want to ask yourself these questions. This is a guest post by a head instructor.
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Wilderness Therapy Programs have been under much scrutiny the past year. Those that are considered “Boot Camps” have received some of the worse press and rightly so. There have been reports of a five deaths between 1990-2002 and one death in Colorado in 2007.
The Salt Lake Tribune featured a great article on how the programs [...]
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At the end of Wilderness Therapy the parents are invited to meet their teen at a transition camp. These are pictures at the transition camp when our son finished his 8 week stay at Second Nature Cascades Wilderness Program in Oregon. This is a very emotional time for both the parent and the teen. The teen gets [...]
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We have sent our son to a Wilderness Therapy Program for the summer. Life is much calmer at home but the constant heart ache does not go away. The house is quieter but I can still hear his voice or see him coming down the stairs, I realize our family will never be the same. [...]
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We sent our son to a Teen Wilderness Therapy Program last year and I was reading through my journal. Looking back realizing our family was in great turmoil, the guilt, the shame, lack of sleep, loss of work, wondering how your teen is doing, and the never ending pain in your heart [...]
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