User:Pweinberg

BIO
My name is P Weinberg. I hold a masters degree in Clinical Transpersonal Psychology. My Masters Thesis is titled "The Challenge Course as a Therapy: A Literature Review on Effectiveness, Theory, and Research". I am currently a PhD student authoring a dissertation on Adventure Therapy. My areas of research interest focus on all aspects of Adventure Therapy. I look forward to a long career researching this very wonderful and interesting topic. I am a certified trainer of trainers on the challenge ropes coruse and I have developed/consulted on various adventure therapy programs for mental health orgainzations on the east and west coast.

I enjoy converstations about Adventure Therapy so please feel free to contact me.

Academic Presentations
Weinberg, P. J. & Thiede, K. (2002). Rice and Beans, working with at-risk and mentally ill adolescents and assisting in transition into indepentent living. Presented at the 2002 CAFCA conference Denver, CO.

Weinberg, P. J. (2001). The Challenge Course as a Therapy: A Literature Review on Effectiveness, Theory, and Research. Accepted for presentation at the September 2001 Brathay Conference, Transitions-Experiential Learning and the Process of Change. Brathay, England.

Publications
Weinberg, P. J. (2002). The Challenge Course as a Therapy: A Literature Review on Effectiveness, Theory, and Research, bibliography. [on-line] Weinberg, P. J. (2001). The Challenge Course as a Therapy: A Literature Review on Effectiveness, Theory, and Research. Masters Thesis, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center: San Francisco, CA.

Wikipedia Articles
Adventure therapy