Adventure Therapy with Groups

Gillis, H. L.; Gass, Michael A.; Russell, Keith

doi:10.4135/9781452229683.n42

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“…Research on health outcomes of WEP have been mixed, often describing challenges in comparing effectiveness across programs because of the broad range of theory and methodology and lack of randomized assignment, control groups, and longitudinal designs (Gillis & Gass, 2003; Russell, 2012). In spite of methodological shortcomings, beneficial effects of WEP have been reported.…”

Section: Wilderness Experience Programmingmentioning

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“I'm stronger than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place

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This community-based research applied principles of wilderness experience programming and Indigenous knowledges in an exploratory intervention designed to address health disparities in a tribal community. Drawing on historical trauma frameworks, tribal members rewalked the Trail of Tears to consider its effect on contemporary tribal health. Qualitative data from tribal members suggest that engagement with place and experiential learning, particularly the physical and emotional challenge of the Trail, facilitated changes in health beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Deep engagement outside of traditional health service settings should be considered in interventions and may be particularly effective in promoting positive health behaviors in Native communities.

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“I'm stronger than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place

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“…The continuing use of different adventure activities and approaches (Epstein, 2004;Gillis & Gass, 2004) and the exclusion of variables such as programme duration, leadership proficiencies, age, gender and other client characteristics in analyses (Russell, 2003) largely contribute to this uncertainty. Coupled with this, Russell (2003) mentions that most research methodologies used are difficult to duplicate in varying situations.…”

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Centre‐based and expedition‐based (wilderness) adventure experiential learning regarding personal effectiveness: an explorative enquiry

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The purpose of this study is to compare a centre-based adventure programme (CBAP) with an expedition-based wilderness programme (EBWP) with regard to personal effectiveness. In comparing these two programmes, this study made use of a crossover research design with data collection according to DE Vos. Participants were 28 third-year students (14 men and 14 women), aged 20 to 23 ( = 21.6 ± 0.7) from the Northwest University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. Both interviews and questionnaires (n = 28) were used to gather comprehensive data. Results indicated medium-(d = 0.5) to-practically significant (d ≥ 0.8) changes in most of the ROPELOC (Review of Personal Effectiveness and Locus of Control) variables. Each programme offered unique benefits. The EBWP resulted mainly in improvements in terms of the personal aspects of the ROPELOC, whereas the CBAP mainly delivered in terms of its social aspects. Even though both programmes seem to be beneficial for the facilitation of personal effectiveness, each programme should be selected according to the envisaged outcomes and intervention criteria. For the improvement of personal effectiveness, the EBWP seems to be of relatively more value -mainly on account of the impact of the wilderness environment. This translates into unique experiences of solitude, privacy and freedom of choice, spiritual upliftment, and restoration.

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Process factors explaining psycho-social outcomes in adventure therapy.

Russell¹,

Gillis²,

Kivlighan³

2017

Psychotherapy

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The development and factor analysis of the Adventure Therapy Experience Scale (ATES) is the first attempt found in the literature to empirically and quantitatively identify therapeutic factors theorized to affect change in the adventure therapy experience (Russell & Gillis, 2017). This study utilizes the ATES to explore how its inherent factors may impact treatment outcome utilizing a routine outcome monitoring process to empirically test how these factors may contribute to treatment outcome over time. The sample of 168 males 21.5 years of age completed an average of 79.6 days in the 90-day adventure-based substance use disorder residential treatment program. In the model, adventure-based experiences are a primary treatment tool. For outcome monitoring, all clients were administered the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45.2) at intake, every 2 weeks, and at discharge. In addition, clients were administered the 18-item ATES every 2 weeks. The ATES contains 2 items measuring how helpful the adventure experience was as well as how mindful they were of their treatment process during the experience. Clients also answer 16 Likert items measuring responses on 4 subscales: group adventure, nature, challenge, and reflection. Results reveal that clients, on average, improved in their psycho-social functioning as measured by the OQ 45.2. Weeks with higher helpfulness, mindfulness, and group adventure scores than the client's average helpfulness, mindfulness, and group adventure score, had greater decreases in OQ scores than weeks with lower helpfulness, mindfulness, and group adventure scores. Clients with higher aggregate helpfulness and group adventure scores, across all treatment weeks, had greater decreases in OQ scores than clients with lower aggregate helpfulness and group adventure scores. Implications for practice and future research are also discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Adventure Therapy with Groups

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

“I'm stronger than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place

“I'm stronger than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place

Centre‐based and expedition‐based (wilderness) adventure experiential learning regarding personal effectiveness: an explorative enquiry

Process factors explaining psycho-social outcomes in adventure therapy.

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