Wilderness therapy purports to help teens heal from trauma, overcome behavioural problems and ‘find their true selves’ by embedding with nature. But for many like Kyra Frankowski, this therapy had the exact opposite effect. Megan Sheets writes
Since the founding of the first wilderness therapy programme in 1990, hundreds of thousands of American teens have been sent to live outdoors for weeks at a time with a goal of disrupting and permanently replacing unhealthy behaviour and thought patterns.
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