39-3 The Impacts of Adventure Therapy Training Workshops on High School Counselors' Self-Awareness

This study examined how the adventure therapy training workshops could improve high school counselors' self-awareness and learning experience The objectives of this study are seven female high school counselors who attended the four adventure therapy training workshops, led the practice of students' adventure therapy groups, and attended a supervision meeting Through two in-depth interviews and a mini focus group, the results of this study were as bellow: Through the training workshops, the participants developed awareness about themselves, their job and the relationship with students of their work. Results of this study suggested that future research should include more male participants and participants who have different professional and training backgrounds, or narrowing the scope of research data collection. In addition, the government should promote this kind of training workshop for teachers/counselors as it may help teachers/counselors develop new counseling or teaching mode.

Keywords
adventure therapy ; self-awareness

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