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Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (OBH)

Outdoor behavioral healthcare, by definition, refers to programs in which adolescent participants enroll, or are placed in the program by parents or custodial authorities; to change destructive, dysfunctional, or problem behaviors exhibited by adolescents through clinically supervised therapy, and an established program of educational and therapeutic activities in outdoor settings.

challenges to accreditation processes that demand strict disciplinary content coverage

Academic Freedom: Freedom to study our interests, in the way we best comprehend knowledge. We can work to decrease the amount of control the disciplines exert over how we learn, and instead put disciplinary knowledge to work in ways that reflect our interests and concerns.

Genuine expertise often comes with a high price that may not always be worth the time spent.

Law of Diminishing Returns: The higher the level is that you desire to achieve, the more time you must input into the profession. As you progress further towards mastery, the amount of time you have to dedicate to the field increases exponentially, reducing the amount of time you can spend learning about other things. Genuine expertise often comes with a high price that may not always be worth the time spent. For example, if you can gain fluency in a language, is it worth the extra time to achieve the perfection of a native speaker, or is it more rewarding to branch out into other areas to add to your language proficiency?

Unity of Knowledge: Being able to learn more so that you have the ability to connect with more knowledge. Most majors and fields look at parts of the world, but there is something beautiful and exciting about trying to step back and see how things connect.

studying the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart might mean analyzing weather patterns, looking at airplane construction, studying her life story– and the answer to the mystery might depend on looking at these things together, rather than separately.

Outsider’s Perspective: a situation viewed by a diverse group of people to make the outcome as creative and diverse as possible. When people are trying to avoid the cookie cutter pathway to how an outcome may seem.

Interdisciplinary studies is “a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or profession,” and it “draws on disciplinary perspectives and integrates their insights through construction of a more comprehensive perspective”

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, The University of Al-Karaouine in Morocco, Africa is the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world.

platonic relationship

He spent much of his youth learning from the great philosopher, Socrates.

Hang out and talk about intellectual and professional stuff related to the discipline

Create a degree, major, or educational program

Conduct a conference

to critique the way that education and research are carved up into silos, or to question the way that disciplines organize the world around us.

understand

Because at the end of the day, your opinion and your thoughts matter, and you need to make those important to you before they are important to anyone else