Suggests risk-taking adventure activities for women in the outdoors and explains how they can help build empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem. For mental health professionals, outfitters, trek leaders, and outdoor program administrators and educators. Also published as Women and Therapy, v.15, nos. 3/4. Paper edition (058-4), $19.95. Annotatio

Résumé
Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of its kind devoted to the symbolic value of wilderness accomplishments to women's mental health.

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Contents
Introduction

Nuestra Hermana
I. Theoretical Perspectives
Wilderness Therapy: What Makes It Empowering for Women?
Self Control: The Key to Adventure? Towards a Model of the Adventure Experience
Transforming Body Image Through Women's Wilderness Experiences
Ethical Considerations in Adventure Therapy: A Feminist Critique
II. Wilderness Therapy in Action
The Wilderness Solo: An Empowering Growth Experience for Women
Women on the Ropes: Change Through Challenge
Building Self-Efficacy Through Women-Centered Ropes Course Experiences
What is the Therapeutic Value of Camping for Emotionally Disturbed Girls?
Equine Psychotherapy: Worth More Than Just a Horse Laugh
III. Special Populations
Two Bears, Dancing: A Mid-Life Vision Quest
Therapeutic Considerations of Wilderness Experiences for Incest and Rape Survivors
Breaking Through Barriers: Wilderness Therapy for Sexual Assault Survivors
Women's Adventure Group: Experiential Therapy in an HMO Setting
So . . . What Does Rock Climbing Have to Do With Career Planning?
IV: Voices of Experience: Personal Narratives
When I Reach the Place I'm Goin', I Will Surely Know My Way
Climbing for My Life
After the Next Full Moon
A New Generation of Women in the Wilderness
Reference Notes Included
Index