I Was a Wilderness Therapy Success Story. Then My PTSD Surfaced.
Wilderness therapy looks like yet another scam designed to extract funds from parents with self-destructive kids.
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Wilderness therapy looks like yet another scam designed to extract funds from parents with self-destructive kids.
Opinion | As a teen, I credited the therapy with reversing the downward spiral I was on. But in college, the nightmares began.
E-Mail DURHAM, N.H.-- The University of New Hampshire's Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center receives $2.97 million in grants to conduct a first-of-its-kind randomized study looking at the effectiveness of outdoor behavioral health (OBH), or wilderness therapy, a prescriptive treatment for teens struggling with depression, anxiety and substance use disorders. "Mental health and substance abuse issues in adolescents have become major societal problems, forcing parents and health providers to look for innovative treatment options that may better suit some teens," said Michael Gass, professor...