RedCliff Ascent: The Leader in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare

By Stephen C. Schultz RedCliff Ascent is an Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (OBH) program for adolescents who are essentially stuck in the adolescent stages of development. They lack the coping mechanisms, competencies and discipline necessary to manage their lives at an age appropriate level. In other treatment or academic settings, these students may only be labeled by their diagnoses, which often include ADHD, ODD, Depression, Anxiety, ASD, bipolar mood disorder, etc. The RedCliff treatment protocol recognizes the child and the illness are two distinctly separate components. A student’s life should not be defined by a diagnosis. Each is specifically addressed independently in the therapeutic process. We help the student and family understand how a specific cluster of symptoms associated with their diagnosis has impacted the student’s developmental progression. RedCliff’s therapeutic model disrupts these unhealthy patterns of behavior and reintegrates the stu