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  • A Longitudinal Assessment of Treatment Outcomes in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare.  Russell, K. C. (2002).  Technical Report 28, Idaho Forest, Wildlife, and Range Experiment Station, Moscow ID.  Available from the University of Idaho-Wilderness Research Center. [ Executive Summary ]

  • Assessment of Treatment Outcomes in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare. Russell, K. C. (2001).  Technical Report 27, Idaho Forest, Wildlife, and Range Experiment Station, Moscow ID.  Available from the University of Idaho-Wilderness Research Center. [ Article ]

  • Studies of the use of wilderness for personal growth, therapy, education and leadership development:  An annotation and evaluation.  Moore, T. & Russell, K. C. (2002).  Available from the University of Idaho-Wilderness Research Center, Moscow ID USA. [Article]

  • Perspectives on the wilderness therapy process and its relation to outcome. Russell, K. C. & Phillips-Miller, D.  (2002).  Child and Youth Care Forum, 31(6), 415-437. [ Article ]

  • Exploring how the wilderness therapy process relates to outcomes.  Russell, K. C. (2001). Journal of Experiential Education, 23(3),170-176. [Article]

  • What is wilderness therapy?  Russell, K. C. (2001). Journal of Experiential Education, 24(2),70-79. [Article]

  • Definitions, common practice, expected outcomes, and a nationwide survey of programs.  Russell, K. C. & Hendee, J.C.  (2000).  Outdoor behavioral healthcare: Technical Report 26, Idaho Forest, Wildlife, and Range Experiment Station, Moscow ID.  Available from the University of Idaho-Wilderness Research Center. [Article]

  • Social and economic benefits of a U.S. Wilderness Experience Program for Youth-at-Risk in the Federal Job Corps.  Russell, K. C, Hendee, J.C. and Cooke, S. (1998). International Journal of Wilderness, 4(3) 32-38. 

  • How wilderness therapy works: An examination of the wilderness therapy process to treat adolescents with behavioral problems and addictions.  Russell, K. C. and Hendee, J.C. and Phillips-Miller, D. (2000). In Cole, D., McCool, S. Eds. 2000. Proceedings: Wilderness Science in a Time of Change, Missoula, MT, May, 1999. Proc. RMRS-P-00. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. (Peer Reviewed).  [Article]

  • Wilderness therapy as an intervention and treatment for adolescents with behavioral problems. Russell, K.C. & Hendee, J.C. (1999). In Watson, A, Aplet, G. and Hendee, J. Eds. 2000. Personal, Societal, and Ecological Values of Wilderness: 6th World Wilderness Congress Proceedings on Research, Management and Allocation Volume II, Proc. RMRS-P-00. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. (Peer Reviewed).  [Article]

  • The theoretical basis, process, and reported outcomes of wilderness therapy as an intervention and treatment for problem behavior in adolescents. Russell, K.C. (1999) Unpublished doctoral dissertation, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, ID 83844-1144.    [Article]

  •  The wilderness experience program industry in the United States: Characteristics and dynamics.  Friese, G. Hendee, J. and Kinziger, M. (1998). Journal of Experiential Education, May/June 1998, 21(1) 40-45.  [Article]

  • Wilderness Experience programs for personal growth, therapy, education and leadership development: There extent, social-economic and ecological impacts and natural resource policy implications -- A five year program of research by the university of Idaho wilderness research center. Hendee, J. (2000) Available from the University of Idaho-Wilderness Research Center. [Article]

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