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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]bad treatment is worse than no trearment. obviously. the fact that you keep on engaging in this logical fallacy makes me doubt your truthfulness, maybe to yourself as well. clearly you believe that wilderness therapy actually worked for your particular child. if so, name the program, how they provide therepeutic and medicsl services, how long your child was there, and what your child is doing now. what I am saying is that the industry is full of abuse and bad actors. that doesn’t preclude there being good residential programs that use outdoor activities therepeutically in an appropriate way. so explain it, or not. but you can’t rebut the lengthy and horrific documented history of wilderness “therapy” just by saying “we had no other choice!!![/i]

Wow I can't believe how much this discussion was run off the rails by the anti-wilderness brigade astroturfing the discussion. Comments like these have nothing substantial to add.

Dismissing other's real-life experiences and saying over and over again that wilderness programs aren't therapeutic doesn't make it so. You'll notice that posters who've commented on their positive experiences with these places have given nuanced opinions of these places, acknowledged they're not for everyone, acknowledged that finding a good program took a lot of work and research - but have noted that intensive therapy, psychiatry, and doctors when needed were all part of the experience.

Sea ottering and demanding posters entertain your bad-faith arguments and name therapeutic programs so you can dismiss them outright isn't constructive or a good use of anyone's time.
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You might want too read this article about how there is scant evidence (and what is there is funded by these programs) on whether Wilderness even works at all.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/wilderness-do-wilderness-therapy-programs-really-work

“It’s hard to make a case for spending a lot of money on a program for which there is no strong evidence,” says John Weisz, a professor of psychology at Harvard University who specializes in mental health interventions for children and adolescents. “From the state of the evidence that I’ve seen, we really don’t know whether wilderness therapy has beneficial effects or not,” he added.

CAVEAT EMPTOR.

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