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Whooter:
Long-Term Outcome Studies of Wilderness Therapy Programs Show Teens Improve at SUWS of the Carolinas

Aspen Education Group has participated in multiple independent research studies to ensure that we provide the most cutting-edge, evidence-based therapeutic practices and clinical models within each of our programs. As the leading provider of therapeutic education programs for youth and young adults, we feel it is our responsibility to measure the effectiveness of our methods and the sustainability of our results.

Aspen Education Group’s Outdoor Behavior Healthcare (OBH) programs, also referred to as wilderness therapy, participated in two long-term, independent research studies, most recently from March 2006 through October 2008. One hundred-ninety adolescents, ages 14-17, enrolled in three different wilderness therapy programs were assessed at admission; one week after they started treatment; graduation from the wilderness therapy program; three months after graduation; and 12 months after graduation. Adolescent participants in wilderness therapy programs experienced reported struggling with issues such as substance use, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideations, ADHD and academic performance

Oscar:
The outcome of any research is depending of who is paying the bill for this research. Every single Saturday one of our TV-channels have a program where members of the news media have to confess what story they published last week they are sorry to have tormented the public with.

4 of 10 times it is a headline showing something a company wants people to believe in. It could be new medication or food product etc. but that very day where companies like Aspen enter Denmark, they will be cited on Saturdays too.

Whenever the justice department in Denmark ask what to do with troubled teens, their research states that the answer is social workers, family therapists and personal mentors in the local community. Of course we have a lot of politicians writing such research of and then they come into office and order yet a research to be conducted.

Result: The answer is the same.

Kids belong in the families. If a family is disfunctional, then the answer is court-ordered therapy of the parents.

Whooter:

--- Quote from: "Oscar" ---The outcome of any research is depending of who is paying the bill for this research.
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Who else is willing to pay for it?  If you develop a new drug you need to come up with the 25 million or so yourself to have it tested, no one does this for free.  What Aspen did was choose an outside agency which does research for a living and then get a university to work in parrallel with them.  This is about as independent as you can get.

Anonymous:
At least big pharmaceutical companies make allowances up front for the billion dollar lawsuits that often follow a drug which has crept out the back door onto the market. Instead of spending that money on research, the companies would rather get it on the market now and pay later.
Get your kid into the program now and pay later. It is the gift that keeps on giving-kinda like syphilis.

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---One hundred-ninety adolescents, ages 14-17, enrolled in three different wilderness therapy programs were assessed at admission; one week after they started treatment; graduation from the wilderness therapy program; three months after graduation; and 12 months after graduation.
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Five different time points does not obscure the fact that these teens were assayed during a window in which long term damage cannot be seen.

Twelve months post-graduation? Pffft. Where are the assays at 2 years? Five years? Ten years? And yet these are are referred to as "Long-Term Outcome Studies!" Gaw-leeeee!

Moreover, there is no information in this overt piece of viral marketing regarding HOW these assays were conducted. "Informal surveys" sent out? Disregarding for the moment the general bias inherent in such surveys, what percentage were actually returned?

And... where oh where are the links to these so-called "independent research studies?"

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