Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen
Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen
Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen
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ESF provides the COST office through an EC contract<br />
Cost is supported by the EU RTD <strong>Framework</strong> programme<br />
‘<strong>Green</strong> <strong>Care</strong>’ is a range of activities that promotes physical and mental<br />
health and well-being through contact with nature. It utilises farms,<br />
gardens and other outdoor spaces as a therapeutic intervention for<br />
vulnerable adults and children. <strong>Green</strong> care includes care farming,<br />
therapeutic horticulture, animal assisted therapy and other nature-based<br />
approaches. These are now the subject of investigation by researchers<br />
from many different countries across the world.<br />
This book is the result of cooperation by scientists brought together<br />
under the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)<br />
programme. It seeks to describe and define green care and to set it<br />
within the context of a number of theoretical and practical frameworks<br />
including those of psychology, psychotherapy, health promotion, social<br />
inclusion and others. The aim is to provide a guide which will help<br />
researchers and others to understand the principles of green care<br />
and its links with other disciplines and approaches.