What makes nature-based interventions for mental health successful?

Nature-based interventions for mental health are beginning to become more common in the UK. The evidence for their usefulness is building. Taking the ‘A Dose of Nature’ project in the south-west as an example, factors for making such interventions a success are described.

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Main Author: Dan Bloomfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017-11-01
Series:BJPsych International
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474000002063/type/journal_article
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spelling doaj.art-08a4e6383fc54c2eb3fdf603fa06cbb42023-03-09T12:28:30ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych International2056-47402058-62642017-11-0114828510.1192/S2056474000002063What makes nature-based interventions for mental health successful?Dan Bloomfield0NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow in Environment and Health, University of Exeter, UK, emailNature-based interventions for mental health are beginning to become more common in the UK. The evidence for their usefulness is building. Taking the ‘A Dose of Nature’ project in the south-west as an example, factors for making such interventions a success are described.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474000002063/type/journal_article
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