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Episode 83: Wilderness Therapy and the Five Pandemics
Stories from the Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors
English - June 18, 2020 21:30 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsHealth & Fitness Education Self-Improvement adventure therapy behavioralhealthcare outdoor wildernesstherapy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 81: Alex White, Adventure Therapy Outpatient Clinician
Next Episode: Episode 84: Judith Sadora, Therapist at Evoke Cascades
This episode will delve into the history of wilderness therapy and how the field responded to five pandemics (crisis) during its long evolution. Will White will share the story of how different national and global calamities were catalysts for the evolution of wilderness therapy including a viral pandemic in 1901, global strife in 1941, the civil rights movement in 1968, the great recession of 2008 and how wilderness therapy is best suited to address the mental health crisis of 2020.