Full Description
This Open Access book serves as a guiding resource for the growing Outdoor Health Sector. It contributes new knowledge, sound theory, mature practices and examples of impact across four key areas: 1) Practice & Quality; 2) Research & Evidence; 3) Community & Engagement; and 4) Policy & Advocacy. This edited book supports practitioners, providers, researchers, students and policy makers as we continue to build a respected, vital evidence‑informed nature‑based health field.
The narrative woven throughout this scholarly work acknowledges past, present and future contributors. It provides continuity of people, place and purpose, capturing the values and ethics enacted within the professional Outdoor Health community, with guidance for the field as it matures. Grounded in Indigenous and cross-cultural perspectives, this book is inclusive and diverse, and presents a road map for a future in which outdoor and nature-based services are valued across health, mental health and wellbeing fields.
Contents
Foreword: Intentions, realities and reflections.- Introduction: Outdoor Health in Australia: Looking back, around, and forward.- Section One: Practice and Quality.- Chapter 1: Cultural Outdoor Healthcare: What is Aboriginal informed outdoor therapy on country in lutruwita Tasmania?.- Chapter 2: A 'superfood' for children: the benefits of nature and risky play in educational settings.- Chapter 3: Boys to Men: Healing the wounds of intergenerational toxic masculinity.- Chapter 4: Making Forest Bathing and Nature Connection accessible.- Chapter 5: The invitational approach: Equine Facilitated Therapy and Learning.- Chapter 6: I'm glad I don't know: Working with anxiety in facilitating outdoor experiences.- Chapter 7: Human Nature Adventure Therapy: A model for young people.- Chapter 8: Regenerate: Supporting women survivors of family violence and their children.- Chapter 9: Ecological restoration and HumanHealth.- Section Two: Community and Engagement.- Chapter 10: Country-centric pedagogies in initial teacher education for social and ecological wellness and balance.- Chapter 11: Nature based occupational therapy - for people, for communities, and for nature.- Chapter 12: A Professional Journey in outdoor and nature-based work: Collaboration with partners.- Chapter 13: Taiwan's development of adventure therapy practice.- Chapter 14: The Eco-coffin project: What is a sustainable death?.- Chapter 15: The Mycelium Metaphor: A picture of Adventure Therapy in Europe.- Chapter 16: "It's good for the soul": Benefits of the Master Gardener Program for vulnerable communities.- Chapter 17: Integrating Daoism with nature-based therapy.- Chapter 18: A perspective on the Japanese approach to Outdoor Health.- Section Three: Research and Evidence.- Chapter 19: Nature-based Therapy and the Healthand Well-being of Aboriginal Men.- Chapter 20: "If you look you will see the light shining through the darkness": A photovoice phenomenological study exploring a nature walking group for people using mental health services.- Chapter 21: Underlying mechanisms of nature-based interventions and intention to change behaviour through a social psychology lens.- Chapter 22: Positive Body Image in Women and Outdoor Physical Activity: A Qualitative Analysis.- Chapter 23: Mobilising wellbeing, learning and sustainability in the campus community garden relationscape.- Chapter 24: Living close to nature to foster 'living well with dementia.- Chapter 25: Climate anxiety features and factors: Perspectives from professionals.- Section Four: Policy and Advocacy.- Chapter 26: Recreating Song lines from Trauma Trails: The Ceremony of Indigenous Facilitation Practice - Country holds the space.- Chapter 27: Outdoor Therapeutic Adventure -A case for inclusion in mainstream health policy.- Chapter 28: Human and Environmental Rights in Outdoor Health Practices.- Chapter 29: The ten dimensions of health and well-being and the influences of outdoor learning.- Chapter 30: Campfire Conversations: A Reflection of Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion in the Outdoor Health and Nature Based Solutions Fields.-Chapter 31: Transformative Ethics for Outdoor Health Practices.- Chapter 32: Nature as medicine: A doctor's view- advocating for a nature-fueled healthcare revolution.- Conclusion: Caring for people and planet.
