Ecotherapy
The EcoSystemic Return: An Anthology for Now
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The EcoSystemic Return is an anthology of papers by and for systemic practitioners that uses an ecological, systemic lens to critically engage with environmental matters such as climate change and wider critical systemic implications. Several chapters address the urgent need for ecological considerations in our societal structures and decisions. Chapters also explore the challenging terrain of global health crises, particularly pandemics, using systems theory and new materialist thinking to understand our interconnected vulnerabilities and strengths.
Rewilding Therapy: EcoSystemic Theory and Practice
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This book by Chiara Fortina Santin shares stories from her own relationship with nature, from her family life. She offers poems as a method of reflection and going further in the relationship between her professional and personal selves.
Eco-Centred Therapy: Revisioning Person-Centred Psychology for a Living World
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Offering a much-needed update of Rogerian theory and practice, and based on insights from cultural studies and ecopsychology, this book breaks new ground by questioning the relevance of certain ways of thinking about counselling and psychotherapy not least in the current planetary emergency.
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In ‘Combining’, Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity. Insisting on our collective responsibility to confront the looming threats to humanity’s survival, she advocates change through interconnectedness and challenges us to rethink our perspectives on relationships, community, and the very essence of being human.
Nature-Based Play Therapy: A Prescriptive Approach to Integrating the Therapeutic Powers of Nature and Play
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Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive model.
Ecotherapy: A Field Guide
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Ecotherapy: A Field Guide presents an extensive review of the field of ecotherapy that unearths a number of ambiguities in the way this therapy is understood and described.
Walk and Talk Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Incorporating Movement and Nature into Your Practice
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In Walk and Talk Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Incorporating Movement and Nature into Your Practice, Jen presents the many benefits of an outdoor, movement-based psychotherapy practice and provides tools for clinicians to develop their own version, no matter where or with whom they practice.
Holding the Hope: Reviving psychological and spiritual agency in the face of climate change
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Global heating, catastrophic climate change and the growing reality of ecosystem damage and accelerated species extinction hang over us all. For the counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors who make up the talking therapy professions, these topics are increasingly coming up in their work.
Ecopoiesis: A New Perspective for The Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies In The 21st Century
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This book emphasises ecological, nature-assisted expressive and creative arts and art therapies within the context of the current ecological crises. Rich in fresh theoretical perspectives, this timely compendium of theory, research, and practice also provides methods and tools that can help the reader understand and incorporate new eco perspectives into their work.
Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment
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This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa.
Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Working with Children, Teens, and Families
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Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies offers a wide range of healing modalities and case studies that can be used in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Forest Therapy – The Potential of the Forest for Your Health
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In fast-paced everyday life, it is becoming increasingly important to find an antipole. The forest seems to be the perfect place for this – it offers balancing stimuli, health-promoting effects and its climate is proven to be effective on human health. This non-fiction book explains the background and facts about the effect of forest visits on a scientifically sound basis and sensitizes readers to the great health benefits of forest bathing (Shinrin-Yoku) and forest therapy. As an oasis of tranquility, the forest invites you to slow down, regenerate and draw new energy. Written for interested lay people – psychotherapists, doctors and other health professionals can read along.
Wild Therapy: Rewilding our inner and outer worlds
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This second edition builds on the first to suggest what a wild civilisation might be like, and how psychotherapy could help create it.
Eco-Art Therapy in Practice
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Eco-Art Therapy in Practice is uplifting, optimistic, and empowering while outlining cost-effective, time efficient, and research-based steps on how to use nature in session to enhance client engagement and outcomes.
Grounded: How Connection With Nature Can Improve Our Mental and Physical Wellbeing
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How do we understand nature? Benevolent and supportive? Wild and threatening? Reassuring or unpredictable? We all have a different experience of, and relationship with, nature.
Depth Psychology and Climate Change: The Green Book
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Depth Psychology and Climate Change offers a sensitive and insightful look at how ideas from depth psychology can move us beyond psychological overwhelm when facing the ecological disaster of climate change and its denial. Integrating ideas from disciplines including anthropology, politics, spirituality, mythology and philosophy, contributors consider how climate change affects psychological well-being and how we can place hope and radical uncertainty alongside rage and despair.
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
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Towards an Ecopsychotherapy offers diverse stories, from the therapy room to therapy in the forest, about the healing process of reconnection with the more-than-human world as well as with our wild animal selves. It provides an insight into ecopsychotherapy in practice by outlining its history, key themes, ideas, and controversies.
Nature in Mind: Systemic Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Mental Health
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Nature in Mind explores a kind of madness at the core of the developed world that has separated the growth of human cultural systems from the destruction of the environment on which these systems depend. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the contemporary Western lifestyle not only has a negative impact on the ecosystems of the earth but also has a detrimental effect on human health and psychological wellbeing.
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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From forest paths in Korea to islands in Finland to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science at the confluence of environment, mood, health and creativity. Delving into new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships.
Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy
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Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work.
Bodywise: weaving somatic psychotherapy, ecodharma and the Buddha in everyday life
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Kamalamani explores client work in embodied and relational ways, drawing upon her practice of Buddhism.
Ecotherapy in Practice: A Buddhist Model
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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.
Nature and Therapy: Understanding counselling and psychotherapy in outdoor spaces
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This book will be of use to counsellors, psychotherapists, arts therapists, psychologists and health professionals who are interested in taking their therapeutic work into natural environments and outdoor spaces.
Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
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The idea of using nature to improve mental and emotional wellbeing has existed for many years, in many forms. However, growing levels of interest in holistic, reciprocal relationships with nature have led to the development of an explicit field, termed Ecotherapy.