Parent Choices For Struggling Teens

Guest: Will White, 207-697-2020, will@summitachievement.com, www.summitachievement.com, Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Summit Achievement in Maine, and writer of a doctoral dissertation on the Evolution of Wilderness Therapy. Will traces the various origins of wilderness therapy, starting with a New England summer camp founded in the 1880s, the Salesmanship Club of Dallas founded in 1944, modifications from the Boy Scouts and Outward Bound. and early experiments in primitive survival skills by Larry Dean Olsen and Ezekial Sanchez at Brigham Young University in the early 1970s. He chacterized the early pioneer Larry Wells in the 1970s as the "Johnny Appleseed" of modern wilderness therapy since he was a key consultant to the development of many of the successful and leading early wilderness therapy programs. This show was sponsored by Spring Ridge Academy 928-632-4602, www.springridgeacademy.com, a Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls in Arizona.