Using Adventure Therapy in Clinical Recreational Therapy Practice

This session focuses on adventure therapy as a clinical intervention that can be utilized as a psychosocial treatment approach within a variety of settings. This includes inpatient, outpatient, and residential behavioral health services, military and family-based interventions, as well as pediatric chronic pain programming. Those attending will explore common research outcomes for adventure therapy as a stand-alone intervention in addition to use as a modality within broader evidence-based recreational therapy programs. Those attending will review historical definitions of adventure therapy in contrast to new ways of offering this intervention in more clinically based settings. Specific experiential therapeutic approaches will be reviewed in relation to addressing client treatment goals.