News: Cape Town ICP 2012: Presentation a success! Standing room only!

More than 5700 delegates later, the International Conference for Psychology held in Cape Town South Africa was a complete and undeniable success. I presented a talk entitled the “Wild West of Wilderness Therapy” complete with research, literature review, and clips of interviews of students and staff from Wingate. Shayne Gallagher provided a demonstration of primitive skills, as the interviews ran in the background. So many professional psychologists reached out afterwards to ask how they could gain more perspective to use wilderness programs. Of course, days before and during the conference networking helped to increase the comfort of contacts in sending youth over to the US. Already, one family has come forth and moving forward to get help for their daughter. Another is in need of a recovery program. Still another is coming from Australia in need of structure for a young man with ADHD. The wonderful part is that we are speaking the same language of health and wellness. International options is our forte.