The wilderness ‘therapy’ that teens say feels like abuse: ‘You are on guard at all times’

Programs purport to teach teenagers struggling with mental health problems to learn choice and accountability through powers of nature, with little oversight

Rowan Bissette was 16 when she was transported against her will from Florida to Utah by two men she did not know. This was her first time leaving her home state.

These men were hired by her parents to take her from the psychiatric hospital in Jacksonville where she had been receiving treatment to a residential facility for more intensive care". She was terrified.