How Youth Can Overcome Stress
Monday, November 26, 2012
Interview by Lon Woodbury
Steve Sawyer, Clinical Director and also Co-Founder of New Vision Wilderness Therapeutic Outdoor Programs, talked to Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio about how stress reduction has been verified to be a remarkably potent tool in the therapeutic treatment for at-risk youth who are participating in New Vision Wilderness trips in Wisconsin.
Overview
Steve Sawyer, co-founder of New Vision Wilderness, is a licensed psychotherapist who has a passion for the intervention and change process. He has over a decade of intervention experience in residential, community-based, outpatient and wilderness therapy and currently serves on the board of The National Association of Therapeutic Wilderness Camping (NATWC).
Youth Becoming Increasingly Stressed
Stress in America's youth is growing and getting dramatically worse. This inner tension emerges from a variety of causes such as scholastic pressure, maintaining peer approval on social networks, and feeling scared and distressed by cyber bullying. Furthermore, this stress is a reflection of a feeling of low self-control or powerlessness, which is only a step down from the normal physical process of fight, flight or freezing up when confronted with a severe risk. While this stress could be induced by exterior events, the actual cause could actually be internal perceptions about not feeling protected.
Sawyer explained that some of the innovative therapeutic methods he used were based on recent research on how the mind operates. He believes that bad behavior comes from agitated cognitions, cognitions from disturbed feeling, and these feeling, in turn, arise from childhood memories, most of which are now unconscious.
In order to access the root cause of behavioral issues stemming from repressed memories in the unconscious, Sawyer uses different therapeutic approaches to initiate profound healing. He uses such cutting edge therapies as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Brainspotting, Traumatic Memory Reprocessing through NLP, and Art Therapy to regulate stress, reduce overstimulation and provide neural and somatic stabilization
The discussion ended with Sawyer explaining a few of the things that parents could do to protect against high anxiety levels in their families.
Final Thoughts
Although stress might be considered normal due to the rapid pace of our culture, it can easily cause cardiovascular disease in grownups as well as behavioral troubles in youth. Anxiety reduction procedures deal with psychological needs by nurturing self esteem. Youth registered in the New Vision Wilderness program are learning coping skills, new capabilities, handling worry, and strengthening their sense of self.
Interview by Lon Woodbury
Steve Sawyer, Clinical Director and also Co-Founder of New Vision Wilderness Therapeutic Outdoor Programs, talked to Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio about how stress reduction has been verified to be a remarkably potent tool in the therapeutic treatment for at-risk youth who are participating in New Vision Wilderness trips in Wisconsin.
Overview
Steve Sawyer, co-founder of New Vision Wilderness, is a licensed psychotherapist who has a passion for the intervention and change process. He has over a decade of intervention experience in residential, community-based, outpatient and wilderness therapy and currently serves on the board of The National Association of Therapeutic Wilderness Camping (NATWC).
Youth Becoming Increasingly Stressed
Stress in America's youth is growing and getting dramatically worse. This inner tension emerges from a variety of causes such as scholastic pressure, maintaining peer approval on social networks, and feeling scared and distressed by cyber bullying. Furthermore, this stress is a reflection of a feeling of low self-control or powerlessness, which is only a step down from the normal physical process of fight, flight or freezing up when confronted with a severe risk. While this stress could be induced by exterior events, the actual cause could actually be internal perceptions about not feeling protected.
Sawyer explained that some of the innovative therapeutic methods he used were based on recent research on how the mind operates. He believes that bad behavior comes from agitated cognitions, cognitions from disturbed feeling, and these feeling, in turn, arise from childhood memories, most of which are now unconscious.
In order to access the root cause of behavioral issues stemming from repressed memories in the unconscious, Sawyer uses different therapeutic approaches to initiate profound healing. He uses such cutting edge therapies as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Brainspotting, Traumatic Memory Reprocessing through NLP, and Art Therapy to regulate stress, reduce overstimulation and provide neural and somatic stabilization
The discussion ended with Sawyer explaining a few of the things that parents could do to protect against high anxiety levels in their families.
Final Thoughts
Although stress might be considered normal due to the rapid pace of our culture, it can easily cause cardiovascular disease in grownups as well as behavioral troubles in youth. Anxiety reduction procedures deal with psychological needs by nurturing self esteem. Youth registered in the New Vision Wilderness program are learning coping skills, new capabilities, handling worry, and strengthening their sense of self.
About the Author:
Lon Woodbury created Struggling Teens to help families. He has the recorded this interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for easy access at any time.
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