Nature-Based Therapy

Nature-Based Therapy : A Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families

Take your therapeutic practice with children, youth, and families out into nature

The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned interventions from skilled helpers. Unplugging from technology and reconnecting with the web of life is a powerful antidote to the highly technological and fast-paced realities of so many.

Nature-Based Therapy addresses this underlying disconnection between humans and their ecological home, exploring theories and therapeutic practices undertaken with children, youth, and families, including:

Developing sensory awareness of outer and inner landscapes
Navigating risk in play
Case examples with a diverse range of settings, intentions, and interventions.

Nature-Based Therapy is for counselors, therapists, youth and social workers, educators, and parents working in educational and therapeutic settings who want to take their practice beyond the office walls and into the powerful terrain of the wild, partnering with nature as a co-facilitator to create lasting change.

  • Format: Paperback | 304 pages
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19mm | 508g
  • Publication date: 02 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: New Society Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: Gabriola Island, United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 0865719136
  • ISBN13: 9780865719132
  • Bestsellers rank: 177,322

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Nature-Based Therapy
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Nevin Harper
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
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Take advantage of nature’s therapeutic benefits with this guide for counselors, therapists, and educators who work with children, youth, and families. The num
Nature-Based Play Therapy
Language: en
Pages: 187
Authors: Julie Blundon Nash
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-21 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive
Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Janet A. Courtney
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-13 - Publisher: Routledge

Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies addresses a wide range of healing modalities and case studies that can be used in both indoor and outdoor environment
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Sally Atkins
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-19 - Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work. I
Nature-Based Allied Health Practice
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Amy Wagenfeld
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-19 - Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

The benefits of interacting with nature for our social, cognitive, and physical wellbeing are well documented. But how practical is it to take therapy into natu
Nature-guided Therapy
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: George William Burns
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Psychology Press

Beginning with an evolutionary history of the relationship between man and his environment, Nature-Guided Therapy takes us on a cross-cultural journey into trad
Nature and Therapy
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: Martin Jordan
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-15 - Publisher: Routledge

Recent decades have seen an increasing interest in the healing and therapeutic potential of nature and interest in the potential of greencare interventions for
The Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions to Psychological Health
Language: en
Pages: 93
Authors: Giovanni Sanesi
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-10 - Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

The Healing Forest in Post-Crisis Work with Children
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: Mooli Lahad
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-28 - Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma. For the first time in the English language, this book
Nature Is Nurture
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Megan E. Delaney
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

"Humans have long interacted with the nature world, from foraging and hunting for food to more recently, finding solace and peace in a beautiful vista. Our conn