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Author, Social work academic with Charles Sturt University, Passionate about Outdoor Therapies, Ethics, and Better Outcomes...and ice hockey & punk music
Nov 16, 2022 17 tweets 10 min read
1) This is the cover of Good Will Hunting. Many people argue Robin William’s portrayal of a therapist in cinematic history [despite strangling and threatening the client in that famous scene]. Still, look at where Robin’s character did his best work: #Outdoors Image 2) This thread is about therapy outdoors as I was recently labelled as an “abuser”. I understand where this comes from my #research about survivors’ experiences in #WildernessTherapy. Good Will Hunting is not about Wilderness Therapy. They aren’t the same thing.
Nov 15, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
1) Regarding the recent article shared below, and because this put me in a particular mood today to see #TTI survivors used for industry promotion. Let's explore historically how direct comparison trials fair in #psychotherapy. 2) The first meta-analysis ever found: “More generally, virtually no difference in effectiveness was observed between the class of all behavioral therapies (e.g. #behavior modification) and the nonbehavioral therapies (e.g., Rogerian, #psychodynamicpsycnet.apa.org/record/1978-10…
Nov 15, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
The list of concerns I have with this article cannot be contained to one tweet but let's start with a few. 1) WinGate was an accredited program until only this year. It is likely the horrific assault occurred while accredited. Why this was omitted from the article but mentioning the program is currently not unaccredited is worrying.