Full Description
Ecotherapy in Practice reflects the growing interest and research in this field. Drawing on a diversity of experience from the counselling and psychotherapy professions, but also from practitioners in community work, mental health and education, this book explores the exciting and innovative possibilities involved in practising outdoors.
Caroline Brazier brings to bear her experience and knowledge as a psychotherapist, group worker and trainer over several decades to think about therapeutic work outdoors in all its forms. The book presents a model of ecotherapy based on principles drawn from Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy which focuses particularly on the relationship between person and environment at three levels, moving from the personal level of individual history to cultural influences, then finally to global circumstances, all of which condition mind-states and psychological wellbeing.
Ecotherapy in Practice will provide refreshing and valuable reading for psychotherapists and counsellors in the field, those interested in Buddhism, and other mental health and health professionals working outdoors
Contents
Section One: The Therapeutic Container
Chapter One: Conditions for Change
Chapter Two: Embodied Presence
Chapter Three: Sacred Space
Section Two: The Theoretical Base
Chapter Four: Concepts, Models and Practicalities
Chapter Five: Object-Related Identity
Chapter Six: Triangular Relationship
Section Three: Personal Process
Chapter Seven: The Personal Frame
Chapter Eight: Conditioned View
Chapter Nine: Encounter
Section Four: Collective and Cultural Frames
Chapter Ten: Collective Process, Myth and Ritual
Chapter Eleven: Working with Myth and Story
Chapter Twelve: Creativity
Section Five: Global Context and Wider Horizons
Chapter Thirteen: Environmentally-based Therapy in Context
Chapter Fourteen: Vibrancy
Chapter Fifteen: Embedded Living
