ACE: Three Adventure-Based Activities to Improve Family Communication

Abstract

The action-oriented nature of adventure-based counseling (ABC) makes it a good therapeutic modality for family counseling settings. Research studies exploring the integration of ABC with families are positively correlated with increased communication, conflict resolution, trust, and intimacy. The author presents adventure-based family communication experience, a series of three ABC activities integrated with Satir’s communication model to use in family counseling sessions. Each activity is described, and thoughts about how to integrate and process the experience with a family are provided.

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adventure-based counseling family counseling communication family

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