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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trails and other reputable programs do have medication management, therapists on the ground 2x/weekly and parent support and family therapy.  On treks, the teens are working with wilderness guides some of whom may have some background in psychology, but most of whom are there without specific training other than in wilderness skills (which they teach, btw).

If it appalls you to think that that teens in WT are not under direct supervision by therapists 24/7, I have to ask: just who do you think is on the floor and with patients in a psychiatric facility.  It's not the psychiatrists or therapists who are there 24/7, it's the "behavioral techs": high school grads who have passed 40 hour certification courses to get that minimum-wage job.

My DD didn't like WT--especially the wilderness part.  But she had a therapist who got her and who started to unlock what here issues were.  And even my DD would tell you that WT was nowhere near as traumatizing as the adolescent psychiatric unit, where she dealt with fights, multiple lockdowns, and verbal abuse.
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oh come off it. a psych ward is staffed by people with more than 3 days of training, and there is regular oversight. oh, and it’s not in the wilderness. And of course the fact that a psych ward was traumatizing does not make wilderness therapy any more acceptable. [/quote]

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