GCABC - Adventure Based Counseling

To develop skills and knowledge necessary to facilitate the experience of adventure-based and outdoor modalities to provide culturally relevant mental health healing as well as to facilitate well-being. This includes an understanding of the history of the field, foundational theory, treatment applications and interventions, risk management, assessment, and evaluation

To develop critical thinking skills and theoretical knowledge necessary to facilitate counseling that integrates clinical adventure-based interventions, including ethical considerations, cultural relevance, risk mitigation, clinical applications, and current research

To develop competencies in adventure-based counseling practice applicable in a range of placement settings (i.e., educational, clinical, private practice, school-based, residential treatment, community-based, hospital, etc.), environmental settings (i.e., back-country, front-country, urban), clinical modalities (i.e., individual, group, family, couples), and clinical populations (i.e., various diagnoses).