cover of episode 136: Dr. Virginie Gargano, Founder of Dehors and Professor of Social Work

136: Dr. Virginie Gargano, Founder of Dehors and Professor of Social Work

2021/8/4
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Stories from the Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors

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Dr. Virginie Gargano is the founder of Dehors) an adventure therapy training program located in Quebec, Canada. She is also a professor of Social Work at Université Laval and is a researcher, teacher, and practitioner of adventure therapy. Virginie shares her journey from being a guide at a program that worked with adjudicated youth in the outdoors to going on to get her Masters and Doctorate in Social Work. Virginie also shares her involvement in the International Adventure Therapy Conference and much more.