title: Towards an Evidence-Informed Adventure Therapy: Implementing Feedback-Informed Treatment in the Field.
abstract: As an intervention for adolescents, adventure therapy has evolved considerably over the last three decades with support from multiple meta-analyses and research input from both residential and outpatient services. Tainted by a history of unethical practice and issues of accountability, this article explores the question of how adventure therapy can meet a standard of evidence preferred by policymakers and funding bodies on the international stage. In this case, feedback-informed treatment (FIT) is presented as a means for routine outcome management, creating a framework for adventure therapy which aims to improve the quality of participant engagement while maintaining and operationalizing today's definitions for evidence-based practice. A case vignette illustrates the use of FIT with an adolescent participant engaged on a 14-day adventure therapy program.
authors.affiliation: a School of Humanities and Social Sciences , Charles Sturt University , Sydney , Australia.
authors.forename: Will
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dobud
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D000068156:Formative Feedback; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055814:Wilderness
keywords: Adventure therapy; adolescents; feedback-informed treatment; psychotherapy; routine outcome management