Effects of Wilderness Adventure Therapy on Participants Mental Health
Received Date: Sep 01, 2022 / Published Date: Sep 30, 2022
Abstract
For those with behavioural, psychological, and emotional disorders, adventure therapy offers a technique for prevention, early intervention, and treatment. It may be appealing to at-risk kids who frequently respond poorly to conventional psychotherapy interventions. This investigation evaluated wilderness exploration. Based on the pre-program, post-program, and follow-up responses to self-report questionnaires, therapy (WAT) outcomes for participants. The sample included 36 teenage out-patients with a variety of mental health conditions that underwent a manualized, 10-week WAT intervention. The short-term standardized mean impact size was small, statistically significant, and positive overall, with moderate, substantial considerable gains in social confidence and psychological toughness. Except for the change in suicidality, which was lower than the equivalent benchmark, the overall shortterm effects fell within the age-based adventure therapy meta-analytic benchmark 90% confidence intervals.
Citation: Daneil J (2022) Effects of Wilderness Adventure Therapy on Participants Mental Health. Occup Med Health 10: 429. Doi: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000429
Copyright: © 2022 Daneil J. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Share This Article
Recommended Journals
Open Access Journals
Article Tools
Article Usage
- Total views: 567
- [From(publication date): 0-2022 - Aug 16, 2024]
- Breakdown by view type
- HTML page views: 406
- PDF downloads: 161