Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen
Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen
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in job autonomy, job demand, social support, skill utilisation, skill variety<br />
and task feedback impairs an employee’s mental health. The importance of<br />
green care in relation to work and employment is that it offers vulnerable<br />
people the opportunity to engage in activities that can give them the<br />
positive aspects of work as listed above whilst minimising the negative<br />
ones.<br />
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6.8 Insights of humanistic psychology<br />
Humanistic psychology asserts that humans cannot be reduced to<br />
components, that they have choices and responsibilities and that they seek<br />
meaning. There is a rejection of determinism and a concern for positive<br />
growth, rather than pathology (Bugental, 1964). According to Maslow<br />
every human has fundamental basic needs: safety and security, love and<br />
belonging, esteem, achievement and respect. An individual feels anxious<br />
if these basic needs are not met. In addition there is the need for growth,<br />
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