Outdoor Behavioral Therapy: Qualitative Research

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They must impose more qualitative research to explore specific wilderness therapy approaches and the development of themes used to define outdoor behavioral healthcare.
I contend however, that this therapy can encompass extremely diverse approaches to treatment and still be qualitatively sound. A diversity of program types a client can enroll in, the array of issues the therapy can focus on and address, the length of stay in wilderness, the spectrum of activities included, the involvement of a client’s family and how that plays in the therapy process...among numerous other variables, are what make outdoor behavioral therapy so effective. It’s eclectic. It’s purposefully broad-ranged and catered to countless clientele. Consequently, it’s sometimes difficult to measure benefits qualitatively across the board.
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Qualitative research could be used to gather more in-depth understandings of each program’s venture and outcomes. It is important to identify what paths (if any) are effective, what paths need more work, and what paths may be problematic. However, perhaps the greatest challenge for outdoor behavioral healthcare is that it has yet to find a niche within mental health care systems in the US (Berman and Davis-Berman 2013). Berman and Davis-Berman argue that wilderness therapy must become recognized as an
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