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Kagan, Richard Mark – Child Welfare, 1983
The comprehensive professional training program of a multiprogram child care agency is discussed in terms of its value for staff members in their day-to-day work with emotionally disturbed and handicapped children and their families. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Porter, William Wales – 1975
An innovative therapeutic use of the wilderness environment was explored. A purely recreational outdoor camping program organized in 1971 for economically deprived youths subsequently developed into an outdoor therapeutic program designed for problem youth. The wilderness environment was employed as an effective treatment milieu for helping youths…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Environmental Research
Porter, William W. – 1975
A therapeutic approach, including transactional analysis, assertiveness training, personal causation and modeling theories, was effectively incorporated into the Wilderness Experience Program (WEP) for problem youth, to meet the goal of developing an emancipated individual who could assume responsibility, develop realistic self-expectancies and…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Behavior Modification, Educational Therapy, Elementary Secondary Education