Wilderness Therapy
With all of the choices and prescriptions people face to ease emotional and
physical ailments, nature may not be the first on one's list. If an individual or
family is facing a crisis it may seem more practical to reach for an antidepressant
or similar type of drug. Familial strife warrants fast action and immediate results,
but many times there are major holes in overmedicating a problem. A lot of times, it
is better to revert to a more natural way such as wilderness therapy, to heal a problem.
Summit Achievement, located amongst the mountains in the serene town of Stow, Maine,
understands that last statement to fullest. They are a residential treatment center
focused on rehabilitating broken teens that have found themselves in difficult positions,
while maintaining an academic foreground. They focus on wilderness therapy instead of
pharmaceutical drugs to deal with issues that teens may be facing.
Teens these days are facing so many options and many of them are not ideal. Falling
into poor habits such as promiscuity, drug use, lying, stealing and low self-esteem
can lead to the destruction of what could have been a fruitful life. When these
issues become too large to handle or when families want to put a stop to behaviors
such as the ones above that are coming out the woodwork in their child's life
Summit Achievement is a great choice.
Therapists, teachers and those who guide the teens through wilderness therapy
believe in working with teens to recognize and accept past mistakes and the
behaviors that made them as well as learning from them to create a better
future. This is done through traditional classroom schooling three days a week
coupled with individual therapy sessions and ones shared with their family through
phone sessions. The rest of the week is dedicated to an outdoor expedition such as
rock climbing or hiking that they complete within a team. With an expected arrival
at the end of the week, and expedition debriefing brings a close to the week as
teens talk about what they learned. Students are also expected to complete daily
chores before embarking on their day.
It can be devastating to watch a son or daughter make decisions that bring about
emotional or physical hurt. It can also be exhausting trying to figure out ways
to bring a family back together. Sometimes the cure is not found within prescription
drugs, it is found through a more natural approach such as wilderness therapy at
Summit Achievement to bring teens back to their feet and a family back together.
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