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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Main Author: Supatra Sen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: "Vikol publishing" ST Kolesnichenko V.V. 2024-12-01
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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description 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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spelling doaj-art-7224f4e44e684f2daf7bcc93fe72729e2024-11-13T07:39:36Zeng"Vikol publishing" ST Kolesnichenko V.V.Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry1997-08382024-12-012043035Green Care: Mitigating Stress with PlantsSupatra Sen0Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Asutosh College, Kolkata, Pin 700026. INDIAEcotherapy, 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.http://www.jspb.ru/issues/2024/N4/JSPB_2024_4_30-35.pdfgreen therapynature therapygreen carestress reversalmental health
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Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry
green therapy
nature therapy
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stress reversal
mental health
title Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
title_full Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
title_fullStr Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
title_full_unstemmed Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
title_short Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
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topic green therapy
nature therapy
green care
stress reversal
mental health
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