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Research at NATSAP Programs
Outdoor Behavior Healthcare Research Cooperative
(OBHRC):
A Research Collaborative with a number of NATSAP Outdoor
programs as members and a number of accessible published studies
and reports
http://cehd.umn.edu/kin/research/OBHRC/ :
The purpose of the Outdoor Behavior Healthcare Research
Cooperative (OBHRC) is to carry out a comprehensive research
program on outdoor behavioral healthcare programs operating in
North America.
Research began in 1999 with a major study of four wilderness
therapy programs and has continued with collaboration on several
studies and publications.
Two
Research Reports of note (others are available at the OBHRC
website):
Canyon Research & Consulting
(www.canyonrc.com)
A privately owned company comprised of a team of psychologists
and researchers, Canyon Research and Consulting conducted a multi-center study of psychological, social, and familial
outcomes for youth treated in private residential programs (a
number of which were NATSAP members). It
is the first large-scale, systematic exploration of outcomes in
private residential treatment.
Alpine Academy/Utah Youth Village
Erda, UT
(click
here to visit Alpine Academy/Utah Youth Village)
A five-year independent study on Families First, was conducted by
Dr. Robert Lewis, researcher for the Department of Human
Services and Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah
The research paper was published by Children & Youth Services
Review in October 2004.
Get a copy:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science
Wilderness Quest, Monticello, UT and
Life-Line, Inc., North Salt
Lake, UT
(click
here to visit Wilderness Quest, Monticello, UT)
(click
here to visit Life-Line, Inc., North Salt Lake, UT)
A PhD dissertation comparing a outdoor/wilderness program and a
residential treatment center.
Therapeutic Benefits of a Wilderness Therapy Program and a
Therapeutic Community Program for Troubled Adolescents
Dissertation Abstract - Kreg J. Edgmon, Ph.D.
[The first 24 pages of this 203 page dissertation can be viewed
for free and the entire study can be purchased at
http://www.umi.com]
Wediko Children's Services
(click here to visit Wediko
Children's Services)
Wediko has a history of collaborating on rigorous research
projects
designed to better undersand the behavior and treatment of
children at
risk. An example of such research is the current work being done
By
Jack Wright, PhD of Brown University and Audry Zakriski, PhD of
Connecticut College. Wright and Zakriski, in collaboration with
Wediko
staff, have published ground-breaking work that demonstrates the
importance of viewing problem behavior within the social context
in
which it occurs rather than as an exclusively individualized
trait.
For more, see:
Zakriski, A. L., Wright, J. C., & Parad, H. W. (2006). Intensive
short-term residential treatment: A contextual evaluation of the
"stop-gap" model. Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior
Letter,
22(6)
Zakriski, A. L., Wright, J. C., & Underwood, M. K. (2005).
Gender
similarities and differences in children's social behavior:
Finding
personality in contextualized patterns of adaptation. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 88(5) p884-
Wright, J. C., & Zakriski, A. L. (2003). When syndromal
similarity
obscures functional dissimilarity: Distinctive evoked
environments of
externalizing and mixed syndrome boys. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, 71(3), p516-
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