APEX Adirondack Peak Experience
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pulled from site's meta descriptionAPEX Adirondack Peak Experience is a short-term (8-12 weeks) wilderness therapy program for adolescent males with academics and a clinical approach based on the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM), better known as the
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- Wilderness therapy
- Therapeutic wilderness program
- Adventure and wilderness treatment program
- Adolescent males
- Short-term adventure and wilderness treatment program
- Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM)
- better known as the “Stages of Change"
- Adirondack mountains
- Adirondack region
- Adirondack high peaks
- Lake Placid
- NY
- Skiing
- Cross-country skiing
- Snowboarding
- Hiking
- Backpacking
- Snowshoeing
- Canoeing
- Mountain biking
- Mountain climbing
- Outdoor education
- Physical education
- Academics
- Experiential education
- On-line learning
- Family therapist
- Family psychologist
- Licensed mental health counselor
- Family therapy
- Healthier choices
- Oppositional defiance
- Resistance to rules
- Resistance to authority
- Substance abuse
- Underlying issues of grief
- trauma
- loss
- School truancy
- Lack of interest in academics
- Lack of motivation
- Poor peer relations
- Hanging out with the wrong crowd
- Poor emotion regulation
- Poor distress tolerance skills
- Limited coping skills
- Assessment and testing
- Psycho-educational testing
- Risk and safety assessments
- Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI)
- University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA)
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
- Sheehan Clinician Rated Anxiety Scale (SCRAS)
- Sheehan Patient Rated Anxiety Scale (SPRAS)
- Youth Outcome Questionnaire (YOQ)—in participation with the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative’s (OBHRC) outcome study research