Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
Ecotherapy, also known as nature therapy or green therapy, is the applied practice of Ecopsychology a therapeutic treatment that involves outdoor activities in nature such as care farming, animal-assisted interventions (AAI), social and therapeutic horticulture (STH), healing gardens and facilitated...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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"Vikol publishing" ST Kolesnichenko V.V.
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jspb.ru/issues/2024/N4/JSPB_2024_4_30-35.pdf |
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| Summary: | Ecotherapy, also known as nature therapy or green therapy, is the applied practice of Ecopsychology a therapeutic treatment that involves outdoor activities in nature such as care farming, animal-assisted interventions (AAI), social and therapeutic horticulture (STH), healing gardens and facilitated green exercise. Natural environment because of its role in species evolution has a restorative impact on humans increasing happiness promoting neurotransmitter serotonin production, applicable to many medical phenomena. Humans have an innate biological affinity for the natural environment -the biophilia hypothesis and Biophilic design is an integral part of restorative environmental design, an approach that seeks to re-establish positive connections between nature and humanity. |
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| ISSN: | 1997-0838 |