Doc Dan Sanderson
Aired: July 20, 2009 – 11 AM PST
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TITLE: Adolescent Therapeutic Wilderness Experiences
“Doc Dan” Sanderson, Clinical Director, RedCliff Ascent
CO-HOST: Rob Spencer: Field Manager, West Shield Adolescent Services
“Doc Dan” Sanderson joins Allen and Rob to explore the success of comprehensive therapeutic wilderness programs. Doc Dan’s groundbreaking treatment approach involves parents in their child’s therapy. Redcliff helps parents understand the concepts of “developmental vacation” and “psychological basement” – the detached parts of ourselves that prevent parents and kids from achieving healthy relationships – a hallmark of the facility’s treatment protocol.
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RedCliff Ascent, is a wilderness therapy program for troubled teens age 13 to 17 years. For young adults age 18 to 25 years, see our Medicine Wheel program. For over 15 years RedCliff has helped thousands of troubled teens and their families find a new beginning through wilderness therapy.
Teens are exposed to an environment where drugs, violence, sex, money and peer pressure are an ever-present force that affects both their behavior and perception of life. Today’s teens are more protected and sheltered from the consequences of their behavior than ever before.
To answer the demands for today’s youth, RedCliff has developed a wilderness therapy program that will help them put life in perspective and deal with the issues and problems that currently govern their existence. RedCliff has proven to be instrumental in helping thousands of troubled teenagers gain a new perspective on life while achieving things they never thought possible.
Most important, our hope and our mission is to help find some solutions to the crisis parents face at home with a troubled teens. If our wilderness therapy program does not meet the needs of a student, we will recommend other treatment options or educational consultants to help find an appropriate placement for your child.
