Open Sky Research Director Cited in Industry Association White Paper
The National Association of Therapeutic Schools & Programs (NATSAP) Research Committee produced a white paper entitled NATSAP White Paper: Evidence Base for residential programs, wilderness therapy The paper outlines the five major research initiatives that “provide a growing base of research support for private therapeutic programs. These research initiatives are particularly ambitious: many use large samples, longitudinal designs, multiple research sites, multiple reporters, and “gold standard” outcome measures.”
Open Sky’s research director, Joanna Bettmann, PhD, is a member of the NATSAP Research Committee and is cited in the white paper under one of the five major research initiatives. The paper reports that her work “has produced a series of valuable studies on the positive influences of wilderness therapy on attachment issues for both adolescents and adults.”
Since Open Sky’s inception we have been committed to contributing to the growing body of evidence supporting wilderness therapy treatment.
