Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen

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