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Paquette, Julie, and Frank Vitaro.

"Wilderness Therapy, Interpersonal Skills


and Accomplishment Motivation: Impact Analysis on Antisocial Behavior and
Socio-Professional Status." Residential Treatment for Children and Youth
(2014): n. pag. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
Board certified in family practice, Dr. Paquette earned her medical
degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. She
completed her internship in family practice at Southwest Washington
Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington. Frank Vitaro is a lead
researcher in the Research Unit on Childrens Psychosocial
Maladjustment at the University of Montreal. His research interest
focus on the concurrent and longitudinal associations between
childrens behavioral profile, and their sociometric status, and their
self-perceptions.
This is a Secondary Source: This article begins with explaining the trial
ran and observed by two psychologists. The overview details the fact
that the wilderness therapy had no directs and significant influence of
participants antisocial behavior or socio-professional status. However,
length had a positive indirect effect on lowering the level of
participants anti-sociality, though the development of some
interpersonal skills and accomplishment motivation. This leads me to
believe that this article is not biased because ALL of the results were
included in the conclusion. The article also includes different overview
sections on Antisocial Youth and Intervention. Then it proceeds to
explain why wilderness therapy is useful based on their statistical
findings.
This article relates to my topic of adventure therapy, because it is a
study of wilderness therapy on antisocial youth and young offenders.
This source documents a detailed evaluation of a group of diagnosed
youth and the effect that the alternative therapy had on them.
REFLECTION: Adventure therapy is an alternative intervention for
antisocial youth. It has the ability to broaden their often poor repertoire
of personal and social skills. This broadens the possibilities of recovery
from an antisocial diagnosis. In this study, the impact of participation
in an adventure or wilderness therapy program for antisocial youth
was observed. This experiment was designed to evaluate the influence
of the program on the antisocial youth behavior and socio-professional
status of young offenders, with a pre-test and post-test at three and six
months. A sample of 220 young offenders was used, which was
randomly divided into two conditions: a program lasting between 8-10
days or 17-20 days. The length had a positive indirect effect on
lowering the level of participants anti-sociality, through the

development of interpersonal skills and accomplishment motivation.


Through this article I was able to better understand the difference that
adventure therapy can make on antisocial youth and young offenders.

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