4 Reasons Private Treatment Centers Use Ropes Course To Help Women With Mental Health Disorders

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Only a few inches off the ground, a low element ropes course is a great way to see group dynamics. Active and challenging, it works to assess each individual’s strengths and “lesser” strengths, and provides a holistic picture of a woman’s mental health.

The ropes course is an experiential therapy, and teaches by doing, not by reading, speaking or hearing. This activity is demanding and can become frustrating for some, helping women become acutely aware of their emotions and fears. After the working on the ropes course, women get a chance to open up and address their emotional responses with their primary therapist, often leading to self discovery and truth.

Here are 4 skills women build through ropes course participation at private treatment centers:

• Trust: Isolation, rejection, fear of judgment and shame may inhibit women from opening up during treatment. Personality disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder can trigger excessive mistrust in others. Difficulty trusting others can result in uncontrolled anger and anxiety, along with tumultuous relationships with friends and family. During a ropes course session women have to rely on each other to complete each challenge. Being dependent on others forces women to let go of their fears, become vulnerable and establish trust.

• Communication: Mental health disorders can create communication challenges. Anxiety and paranoia can make it difficult to communicate feelings, thoughts and fears effectively. In order to complete the ropes course, women must be able to assertively communicate what they need from others. The low elements ropes course also offers the opportunity to practice listening and understanding what others need from them. Women learn how to compromise with others as they practice patience and teamwork.

• Self-Awareness: The ropes course reveals individual characteristics such as who asks for help, who is passive, and who is a leader. This revelation helps women better understand their personality and cultivates a conversation on how they measure success and failure.

• Goal Establishment: It is crucial for women with mental health disorders such as depression, to practice setting a goal and completing it. By doing so, women feel accomplished, successful, empowered and confident. Goals help women focus on a task, giving purpose to those who often feel their life serves none. During the ropes course women are given a goal and have to figure out how to complete it. This requires use of the tools they are taught during treatment.

Mental health disorders can be treated at private treatment centers using a wide range of therapeutic modalities, and an adventure-based low elements ropes course is one of these options. Women struggling with low self-esteem, or who have an inability to communicate effectively, fear of trusting others and a lack of awareness of their unique characteristics can benefit tremendously from ropes course participation.

Brookhaven Retreat utilizes a unique low ropes course designed to emotionally and physically challenge women recovering from mental health disorders and substance abuse issues. The skills learned through this experiential therapy help women break down emotional barriers that hinder the healing process.

For more information about Brookhaven Retreat’s exclusive inpatient recovery program, visit http://www.brookhavenretreat.com/cms/ or call 865-573-3656

 
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