Adolescence is a period of development that is widely understood as a time of exploration,
experimentation and engagement with risk behaviours. Prevention and intervention with …

Background and objectives Credible empirical support for the therapeutic potential and
positive outcomes associated with outdoor adventure approaches for children, youth and …

The teamwork life skill is a critical outcome desired in many positive youth development
interventions; however, limited versatile, user-friendly measures of this construct exist …

Background There is an increasing need to identify effective mental health treatment
practices for children and adolescents in community-based settings, due to current mixed …

Many components of the social system interact with one another to produce group-level
behavior that determines the functionality of the small group in outdoor adventure education …

Owing to a shift in alcohol and other drug practice towards a more ecological understanding
of the impact of problematic parental substance use, children who were previously forgotten …

African social workers and psychologists have called for the utility of ubuntu philosophy in
the fields of social work and psychology. Ubuntu is an African philosophy that is based on …

Adventure therapy, an experiential intervention that combines outdoor, adventure based
activities and group process, is used in direct practice by clinical social workers; however, it …

Aim: The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of an Outdoor Adventure Group (OAG) for young
people with a mental illness. It was hypothesized that participating in OAG would result in an …

Child abuse is epidemic in the United States and has dire long-term consequences.
Innovative interventions are needed to address the negative cognitive, affective and …