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Reclaiming Children and Youth - Wilderness Within, Wilderness Without: A Personal Journey Through Pressley Ridge Wilderness Camp at Ohiopyle.(Book review)
March 22, 2007 -- Pressley Ridge Staff This is a review of a book by photojournalist and teacher, Shannon Szwarc, a former student at Pressley Ridge who now...

Peer Review - Value of an Outdoor Education Experience, The
January 1, 2008 -- Last summer I took five days to travel to Dolly Sods, a wilderness area in the Allegheny National Forest, with one of my institution's sixteen summer...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Feds eye 'boot-camp therapy
April 25, 2008 -- WASHINGTON -- Boot camp therapy companies use deceptive practices in getting parents to enroll troubled teens in programs where they can end up...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Beware of wilderness camps
October 14, 2007 -- The federal government is launching investigations into wilderness therapy programs, where entire groups of trusted leaders are accused of severe...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Panel OKs new wilderness-therapy rules
May 15, 2008 -- WASHINGTON -- The House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would create stricter rules -- and penalties -- for wilderness...

USA TODAY - Boot camp 'nightmare' reported
October 10, 2007 -- WASHINGTON -- The first federal inquiry into boot camps and wilderness programs for troubled teens cataloged 1,619 incidents of abuse in 33 states in...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Wilderness therapy flayed
October 11, 2007 -- WASHINGTON -- The deaths of five teenagers in Utah-based wilderness therapy programs are part of a Government Accountability Office report issued...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - House OKs bill to protect teens in wilderness therapy camps
June 26, 2008 -- WASHINGTON -- The House approved a bill Tuesday aimed at protecting teens enrolled in wilderness therapy camps, several of which are based in Utah....

USA TODAY - Reveille for teen boot camps
October 17, 2007 -- What to do when your teenager goes off the rails in ways that seem beyond your control -- anything from drugs and alcohol abuse to depression,...

AScribe Law News Service - Congress Holds First Hearing on Abuse in Unregulated 'Troubled Teen' Industry; Statistical Assessment Service Author Exposed Quackery and Torture Across...
October 9, 2007 -- Byline: Center for Media & Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Deaths from medical neglect and other severe child abuse...

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