Abstract:

Adventure therapy, which uses adventure activities for therapeutic change in a natural environment, is used as a clinical intervention and community health service in the international arena. Since the problems, it deals with, were mostly seen at the individual level, they were generally evaluated as the application of the field of psychology. However, it is also widely used as a social work intervention in various countries. Adventure therapy is especially applied as group work and focuses on “now and here”. As a result of the deliberate selection of the participants into distressed environments, it is aimed to realize their strengths and increase their coping capacities by solving these difficulties. In this context, it coincides with the empowerment approach of social work in many dimensions and aims to bring self-sufficient and active individuals to society. In this study, the suitability and applicability of many more therapeutic achievements of adventure therapy to social work intervention were discussed. It would also be a novel area for work and employment in Turkey has been referred as the focus groups and the basic features of this therapy.