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Summit Achievement in the Winter!

by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming

Summit Achievement has been continuously operating in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire since 1996. The program has a long history of helping troubled teens and their families find success in every season. It can be seen as a challenge to have a young...

How do you view Troubled Teens change at Summit Achievement?

by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program

Summit Achievement finds the Stages of Change Model as a beneficial way to look at the change process for troubled teens and young adults.   The Stages of Change Model, technically referred to as the Transtheoretical Model of Change, was first developed...
Why Does Summit Achievement have an Academic Component when other Wilderness Therapy Programs do not?

Why Does Summit Achievement have an Academic Component when other Wilderness Therapy Programs do not?

by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Academic, Admissions, Clinical, Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming

Summit Achievement has had an academic component since it started operations in 1996. The impetus, at that time, was that one of the co-founders was working as a psychotherapist at a Northeast Boarding School and counseled many students who had gone to wilderness...

Does Summit Achievement work with Troubled Teens by Using a “Scared Straight” Model of Intervention?

by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming

Summit Achievement has achieved being one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious accredited programs for struggling teens by providing our students and their families with high-quality treatment, challenging academics, and outdoor experiences. At times we are...

Why we recommend hiring a Therapeutic Educational Consultant

by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical

WHAT ARE THERAPEUTIC EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS? Therapeutic Educational Consultants are professionals who assist parents. They assist in finding the right therapeutic and/or academic setting for their adolescent or young adults before, and after, Summit Achievement. We...
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