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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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    Future Trends in Outdoor Education

    As we turn the corner away from the 00’s or the “aughts” or whatever historians will choose to call the last decade, it’s worth taking a moment to look ahead toward future trends and issues that will affect things in the outdoor...
  • Outdoor Education General

    What is the Future of Outdoor Education?

    A recent report published in the Proceedings of the National Academey of Sciences entitled Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation by Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic shows that after 50 years of steady increase...
  • Outdoor Education General

    Self Esteem and Mountaineering

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine , published by the Wilderness Medical Society , always has a number of very interesting articles of significance...
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Water Hazards in the Mountains

An extract from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland's 'Water Hazards in the Mountains'...
Posted to: Backpacking & Hiking
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Alex Matthews & Friends Sea Kayaking at Surge Narrows

Alex Matthews & friends sea kayaking and playing at Surge Narrows, Quadra Island, BC. Surge Narrows...
Posted to: Paddling
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RECCO WhiteBook: Avalanche Red Flags

The Whitebook is an Avalanche Awareness Movie produced by Teton Gravity Research and RECCO - Advanced...
Posted to: Backcountry Winter Sports
by 473

Improvised Pelvic Splint

Demonstration of an Improvised Pelvic splint.
Posted to: First Aid
by 473

AEE Interviews/Mary Breunig

An interview with a prominent experiential educator
Posted to: Conferences & Interviews
by 468
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