Background: Summer camps are perhaps the most expansive outdoor experiential
education (OEE) context in the United States today; yet, camp participants are …

Summer camp is an important setting within the learning landscape of youth—a landscape
that also includes school, sports, arts and music, religious settings, home, and eventually …

Abstract “Active ingredients” are one way to describe the elements of a program that are
responsible for the targeted change in behavior, skill, attitude, or belief (Li & Julian American …

Summer camps are a setting well-suited for social-emotional learning. Increasing evidence
supports this claim, yet little research has investigated the similarities and differences in the …

The purpose of this study is to investigate preservice teachers'(PSTs) perspectives on out-of-
school learning (OOSL). A total of 100 PSTs studying at a faculty of education in Turkey …

Even though a considerable number of studies proved that specialty camps working with
therapeutic recreation (TR) have several psychosocial benefits for children and adolescents …

Summer camp can be a developmental setting; however, little is known about camp's
developmental characteristics compared to other summertime settings. In this explanatory …

Background: Summer camp is proposed as a context to enhance prosocial behavior. This
context could be used to apply intervention programs, in addition to being a time of fun and …

Little research has sought to understand programs incorporating outdoor adventure
recreation and STEM, or adventure STEM. An eight-day residential outdoor camp combining …

Overparenting represents a group of well-intended parental behaviors taken to an excessive
degree, often resulting in negative socio-emotional outcomes for overparented children …