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Posted: Sep 21, 2010, 09:17
THE SEVEN CHALLENGES, LLC
New Perspectives
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Tucson, Arizona
Sharon Conner
Director of Program Services
520-405-4559
sconner@sevenchallenges.com
www.sevenchallenges.com
The Seven Challenges Program was developed specifically for adolescents. It is evidence based counseling model utilizing motivational interviewing principles to motivate resistant clients to talk honestly about their substance use and make better decisions about future substance use. The program is designed to work simultaneously to address their drug problems and their psychological problems.
Robert Schwebel, Ph.D., who is still actively involved with clinical aspects and the implementation of it, developed the program. He is a psychologist specializing in couples and family issues and in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, provides lectures and training sessions to professional and community audiences around the country and abroad. He developed the program in 1991 with adolescents in a Tucson, Arizona residential setting. In 2005, Sharon Conner became the director of Program Services. Her job is to assist organizations during their process of determining whether the Program is a good fit for their setting and if it is, then how to make a plan and arrangements for successful implementation. She also coordinates the licensing, training, and ongoing support process.
The challenges provide a framework for helping youth think through their own decisions about their lives and their use of alcohol and other drugs. Counselors using the program are teaching youth to identify and work on the issues most relevant to them. In sessions, as adolescents discuss the issues that matter most, counselors are able to integrate the Challenges as part of the conversation.
The books and journals used in the program are published by Viva Press and can only be obtained by people who have had the required training and are authorized. Some materials are available to download as samples from their website.
In Utah, Elements Wilderness Program uses the Seven Challenges as a major part of their program. Elements is a well known wilderness program in the network of private parent-choice schools and programs. Dr. Robert Schwebel just completed his "annual support and fidelity visit" to Elements Wilderness this September 2010.
[This information came from The Seven Challenges website and an Elements eblast]
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