{"id":721,"date":"2011-06-23T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T07:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rch.org.au\/blogs\/cah\/?p=721"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:06:52","slug":"721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2011\/06\/23\/721\/","title":{"rendered":"Doin\u2019 the Wild Thing: Using the Outdoors to Promote Wellbeing in Young People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2011\/06\/P1200116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2011\/06\/P1200116-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Outdoor education and adventure therapy programs are an extremely popular component of mainstream programming and interventions for young people at risk, but where is the evidence-base to support their widespread acceptance as resilience-building strategies, even transformative experiences? Are there theories, principles or frameworks that can guide our practice?<\/p>\n<p>This forum brings academics, clinicians and practitioners alike who, as passionate advocates, have looked into these questions seeking to find the answers.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone engaged in outdoor adventure programming this forum is must.<\/p>\n<p>WHEN: 4th of August, 9am-12pm<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: Ella Latham Theatre, Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, Flemington Road\u00a0Parkville VIC<\/p>\n<p>COST: $40 or Group Rate: $25 pp with groups of 4 and up<\/p>\n<p>REGISTER: <a href=\"www.rch.org.au\/cah\/forum\">www.rch.org.au\/cah\/forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPEAKERS:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Ian Williams PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research Fellow at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital, an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne , psychologist at Spectrum Personality Disorder Service in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get Outside: Promoting health and wellbeing through contact with nature&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Simon Crisp <\/strong>Clinical Psychologist, Director Neo Psycholog<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adventure Therapy as a Front-line Mental Health Intervention&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the Field Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leading Senior Constable Matt Mudie (Police Facilitator of our Western program) and Brendon Delaney (Teacher Facilitator of our Northern program) will be speaking on behalf Operation Newstart to discuss practical issues regarding this subject.<\/p>\n<p>They will be joined by a representative from another adolescent outdoor<br \/>\nprogram, to be announced.<br \/>\nFor more information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/cah\/forum\">www.rch.org.au\/cah\/forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or contact:<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Gomo- Aadministrator Centre Adolescent Health<br \/>\nPhone: 03 9345 6671<br \/>\nEmail: rebecca.gomo@rch.org.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone engaged in outdoor adventure programming this forum is must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}