Camping and outdoor activities as psychosocial interventions

Kelk, Norman

doi:10.1080/03124079408411136

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“…In the past three decades, there has been a notable decrease in social work's involvement in camp programs, despite the therapeutic and social benefits that have been identified (Breton, 1990;Davis-Berman and Berman, 1989;Gentry, 1984;Kelk, 1994;Marx, 1988). Indeed, a literature search found a substantial body of social work literature discussing camp programs from the 1950s to the 1970s (Feldman, Wodarski, and Flax, 1975;Middleman and Seever, 1963;Ramsey, 1964;Schwartz, 1960a,b;Shalinsky, 1969a,b;1965;Vassil, 1978;Vinter, 1965).…”

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Camps as Social Work Interventions: Returning to Our Roots

Mishna

Michalski

Cummings³

2002

Social Work With Groups

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This article argues for restoration of the value of camping programs as effective social work interventions. Therapeutic camp programs provide a unique intervention through which vulnerable children and youth may make gains in their emotional and social functioning while having fun with peers. An evaluation of a camp program for children and adolescents with learning disabilities and psychosocial problems offers a compelling illustration of how camp can provide an effective context for social group work interventions. Evaluative findings are presented, along with campers' and parents' impressions of the program. Therapeutic camp programs link new approaches with enduring social work principles that reflect social work's roots.

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Camps as Social Work Interventions: Returning to Our Roots

Mishna

Michalski

Cummings³

2002

Social Work With Groups

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“…Historical consensus exists within social work, the field of mental health, and the general society that camping promotes children's and youths' psychosocial development (Schwartz 1960;Dickerson 1973;Kelk 1994;Marsh 1999;Yuen et al 2005). Through the use of focal practices and selected leisure activities applied through the context of group dynamics in ''peaceful and psychologically attractive'' environment (Kleiber 1999), the camping process builds personal and social capital (Hemingway 2001).…”

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A Therapeutic Summer Weekend Camp for Grieving Children: Supporting Clinical Practice Through Empirical Evaluation

Farber

Sabatino

2007

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Through collaborative action-oriented community research, agencybased clinicians, and university-based researchers engaged in a two-year theorydriven evaluation of a therapeutic summer camp for grieving children. The evaluation examined the camp practice model and children's engagement in therapeutic camp activities and psychosocial functioning based on the camp staff and parental caregivers' assessments. The first year findings led to a synergistic decision-making process that strengthened one of camp therapeutic activities. The overall results reveal a high consistency among staff on assessments of engagement and psychosocial functioning, and parental caregivers' satisfaction with the camp. Limitations of research evaluation and implications for practice are considered.

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“…Their role as both a workplace and as a source of child-care are temporally distinct, but otherwise their functions are also relatively concordant (cf. Durkin, 2002;Kelk, 1994). Thus, we believe that research in the more general area of child-care and social work can inform the summer camp researcher.…”

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“…Breton, 1990;Kelk, 1994), as well as the lack of specific research on summer camps per se, one could easily envision that summer camps and child-care settings are similar in several ways. Both face similar problems such as turnover (Osborne & Williams, 1982;Whitebook & Sakai, 2003), and have similar goals of providing care and fostering development.…”

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“…In fact many parents send their children to child-care for personal development reasons, even when there is a parent available to provide care (Ceglowski & Bacigalupa, 2002). Summer camps act not only as a chance for children to retreat from the urban and suburban settings to get back to nature (Kelk, 1994), but they also represent a viable child-care alternative. Finally, there has also been an increase in the use of summer camps for special populations, such as children with terminal illnesses (Swenson, 1988), diabetes (Briery & Rabian, 1999), and developmental disabilities (Bateman, 1968;Osborne & Williams, 1982).…”

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Broad and Narrow Personality Traits in Relation to the Job Performance of Camp Counselors

Loveland

Gibson

Lounsbury

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Child Youth Care Forum

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We examined personality traits important for the job performance of summer camp counselors, including several of the Big Five and narrow personality traits. Performance was based on two composite scales: social performance and task performance. The personality traits of work drive, extraversion, nurturance, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were significantly related to the social performance measure, and the traits of customer service orientation, work drive, extraversion, nurturance, agreeableness, emotional stability, and conscientiousness were significantly related to the Task Performance measure. Results from the stepwise regression indicate that the traits of agreeableness and extraversion were the best predictors for the social performance measure, while work drive was the best predictor for task performance. Expectancy tables illustrated the large differences in job performance between employees in the upper and lower thirds on selected traits. Results were discussed in terms of the Big Five model, directions for future research, study limitations, and practical advantages of using personality measures in the pre-employment screening process for camp counselors.

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Camping and outdoor activities as psychosocial interventions

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Camps as Social Work Interventions: Returning to Our Roots

Camps as Social Work Interventions: Returning to Our Roots

A Therapeutic Summer Weekend Camp for Grieving Children: Supporting Clinical Practice Through Empirical Evaluation

Broad and Narrow Personality Traits in Relation to the Job Performance of Camp Counselors

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