adventure therapy

Seventeen-year-old Dawn and a group of other teens must survive a "wilderness therapy" camp in Washington State as things quickly and dratically go wrong.

Fourteen-year-old Wren Clemmens is a girl who has hit rock bottom. Desperate to turn her life around, her parents send her to a wilderness survival camp for eight weeks. Wren's bitterness and anger do nothing to help her when she arrives at the desert camp. Survival there means Wren must accept the consequences of her actions and admit that she is responsible for her current situation.

"When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help."--Provided by publisher.

Gary Ferguson recounts the experiences he had while spending two months in the Utah wilderness with a group of troubled teens.

Tells the stories of four troubled teens from very different backgrounds whose lives were turned around through their participation in a fourteen-month-program of rigorous courses, wilderness survival, and group therapy offered at Swift River Academy in Massachusetts.

Tells the stories of four troubled teens from very different backgrounds whose lives were turned around through their participation in a fourteen-month program of rigorous courses, wilderness survival, and group therapy offered at Swift River Academy in Massachusetts.