Speaker Talk: Identifying and Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the Wilderness
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is re-contextualized in wilderness and adventure programs. This may result in symptoms being missed, masked, or misunderstood, thus derailing treatment, or creating illusory progress. Alternatively, wilderness and adventure therapies entail a unique opportunity to address these challenging presentations by conducting evidence-supported CBT/exposure therapy in a naturalistic way that is simply not feasible […]