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Episode 49: Dr. Christine Norton, Associate Professor of Social Work at Texas State University
Stories from the Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors
English - October 01, 2019 13:23 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsHealth & Fitness Education Self-Improvement adventure therapy behavioralhealthcare outdoor wildernesstherapy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Next Episode: Episode 50: Guy Dumas, Founder of Guy Dumas Coaching
Dr. Christine Norton is a leading researcher, practitioner, and teacher in the field of wilderness therapy. She is an associate professor of social work at Texas State University, a researcher at the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center, and was field staff at Outward Bound and the Dallas Salesmanship Club Camp. Christine shares her journey into wilderness therapy from being raised as an evangelical minister's daughter to becoming a leading researcher/practitioner of wilderness therapy. Christine shares some of the challenges she has faced in her journey as a woman in wilderness therapy and how she has responded to those challenges.