Kids In Trouble: An Adventure In Education

by Campbell Loughmiller

Campbell Loughmiller, the father of therapeutic camping programs for emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth, describes the framework of the model that he developed in Texas and is being used today in a number of camps in the United States and other countries. As a follow up to his previous book, Wilderness Road, "Chief Lock" emphasizes the counselors' roles of educator and group worker.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154657719X
• ISBN13: 9781546577195
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Kids in trouble

I was one of those kids many, many years ago. Campbell Loughmiller was like a father to me and the other kids. We miss him so much and the world has lost a great man who asked for nothing. Read the book.

Excellent work by a pioneer

Campbell Loughmiller was the first man to use group work and wilderness camping as a therapeutic tool for troubled youth. He pioneered his way in most of what he did, and can put a good word on the how and why. This is a very well-written book explaining concepts and ideas that stand today. The program he outlines is in use in many camps, and his ideas have been taken into schools and organizations throughout the nation. For anyone interested in making a difference in young lives, and especially for those working with troubled youth.

A wonderful follow up to a stellar book

Loughmiller saw education as part of group life rather than as a separate entity done at a set station at a set time in a walled room. He was incredulous that anyone might deem a sterile, enclosed room where a child was removed form all the world of experience, including having his lips sealed and having to virtually sit in a strait-jacket, as being a superior learning environment. In this work Loughmiller outlines how anything that can be taught in a classroom can be better taught in the experiential classroom of daily camp living. Follow-up research at camp showed that kids who came to camp, almost universally failing in school, after being at camp 1-3 years with no "formal schooling", returned to age-appropriate school placement levels and succeeded in school.