Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry

Often synonymous with wilderness therapy, outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH) is a residential treatment in the United States for young people, more than half of whom are sent via secure transport services. While empirical evidence suggests the secure transport of adolescents to OBH does not impact quantitative outcomes, limited research exists exploring client voice and the lived experience of OBH participants. This qualitative study, utilizing narrative inquiry, builds knowledge on experiences of secure transport services from nine past OBH adolescent participants. Findings are analyzed, interpreted, and discussed through a social work and trauma-informed lens. Recommendations for ethical practice, linking with human rights, and future research are provided.

Nature’s Role in Outdoor Therapies: An Umbrella Review

Objective: To report on the role of nature in outdoor therapies through review and summary of existing systematic and meta-analytic reviews in an effort to articulate a theoretical framework for practice. Materials and methods: An umbrella review was conducted following systematic protocols PRISMA guidelines. Results: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and represented five self-identified approaches: nature-based therapies, forest therapy, horticultural therapy, wilderness therapy, and adventure therapy. Clear and comprehensive descriptions of theory, program structure, and activity details with causal links to outcomes were mostly absent. Conclusions: A rigorous and determined program of research is required in order to explicit in-depth theories of change in outdoor therapies. Conversely, or maybe concurrently, a holistic theory of integrated relatedness may be developed as a parallel expression of support for nature in therapy while the explanatory science catches up.

Animal Mimicry as OBT - Wilderness Therapy

Animal Mimicry using the Alexa Skill ‘Animal Sounds’ for mimicking animal cries, in ritualistic group outdoor therapy, is a part of adventure, wilderness and OBT. Part of therapeutic camping. In this paper, the author conducts ten ten minute sessions of animal mimicry, channeling vital energies in a close primordial connection to the elements , twilight and nature, with a positive outcome in decreasing stress, improving attention, removing negative trauma, and improving sensori-motor coordination as indicated in a social responsiveness scale.Keywords: Animal Mimicry, Adventure Therapy, Wilderness Therapy, OBT, Autism Spectrum, Struggling Youth, Detox, Vitality

Draw a River (DAR) : An Art Therapy in Wilderness Therapy.

Welcome the future with an Amazon Drone Pad with a vinyl art wrap of an art piece on river restoration, complete with Signify LiFi based drone landing lights. The Paper illustrates the use of Gestalt, CBT and MBAT based art therapies as wilderness therapy in the understanding of Autopilot thinking in oneself. Experiential outdoor therapy is described in digital art used to promote river restoration in conjunction with future secure deliveries of camping logistic supplies by amazon drones. Towards this goal , the creation of art wraps for drone pads , with LiFi lights is presented in this paper.Draw a River (DAR) is introduced as a form of Art Therapy, either in surreal automatism or symbolic automation The theme being of restoring rivers.Keywords: Vayu Vaidya, Amazon Delivery Drone Pads, Art Wrap, Gestalt, CBT, MBAT,

State Pod Automatism as Art Therapy.

Formal art therapy is defined in a definition of the formal elements in art and metrics on structure, contour, variation and balance, leading to adaptability and measures of dynamism and thought as an emergence in the art form, leading to a viable diagnosis. In this paper we examine formal art analysis in art therapy and describe several metrics based on common data mining algorithms.Keywords: Formal Art Therapy, Autopilot, Mindfulness, Wilderness Therapy, structure, variation, segmentation, objects in images, dynamism, balance, color histograms, k means, data mining. What:In understanding the Autopilot, we use art therapy in the form of the state pod automatism,in this coding , the formal elements consist of a flexible line composition with five or more anchor points to create pods, which are painted in a spectrum of colors using a pixel brush, either as oil or water colors, in as many colors and hues as possible, the transitions between the pods, represent the nature of the inertial, the reason for dukka.(Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2001)We present data mining algorithms for structure and color, and contour based metrics for assisting a prognosis and art therapy formulation.How:Three examples are presented and analyzed using k-means algorithms to create statistics for colors, color clusters and pixels, with a database lookup of matching words as a meta description of the images. We present the analysis, and propose contour and structure mining tools for generating metrics.(Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2005)