DR DIANE PUCHBAUER

Diane Puchbauer has over 11 years of experience working as a field staff with troubled adolescents in wilderness programs. During this time, she also worked with teens in group homes, alternative schools, and outpatient settings. In addition, she has 5 years of experience working therapeutically with pre-teens, college students, and adults in setting such as schools, hospitals, and counseling centers. Diane has been an adjunct professor at Biola University, has taught yoga for 7 years, and has supervised beginning doctoral students. She is an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific University.

Diane developed a manual to train wilderness guides in therapeutic skills and activities: Adventure therapy for adolescents: A Skills training manual for adventure counselors. The training manual is a handbook of clinical skills and therapeutic activities for use with adolescent clients in wilderness settings. It includes topics such as adolescent development and common adolescent diagnosis, emotion dysregulation and the development of psychopathology, the nature and treatment of addictive behaviors, motivation-enhancing therapy, common factors for change and the therapeutic alliance, the theory and practice of group therapy, and a method for setting limits and consequences. The manual was reviewed by a panel of experts in the field of adventure therapy and is currently being prepared for publication. The manual serves as the text for the Clinical First Responder™ training.

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