Community Coping Skills Enhanced by an Adventure Camp for Adult Chronic Psychiatric Patients

Banaka, William H.; Young, Delton W.

doi:10.1176/ps.36.7.746

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“…Adventure- and recreation-based group interventions have been useful in promoting well-being and weight loss in schizophrenia (Voruganti et al, 2006). A 2-week wilderness camp enhanced 10 community-level coping skills related to community survival of chronic mentally ill patients (Banaka and Young, 1985). Participation in a 10-day winter outdoor adventure enhanced the self-concept and locus of control for hearing-impaired individuals (Luckner, 1989a,b).…”

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Ecotherapy – A Forgotten Ecosystem Service: A Review

Summers

Vivian

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Natural ecosystems provide important services upon which humans depend. Unfortunately, some people tend to believe that these services are provided by nature for free; therefore, the services have little or no value. One nearly forgotten ecosystem service is ecotherapy – the ability of interaction with nature to enhance healing and growth. While we do not pay for this service, its loss can result in a cost to humans resulting in slower recovery times, greater distress and reduced well-being. Losses in these images of nature can diminish our basic happiness. Little is understood or, at least, appreciated concerning the potential ecotherapy benefits of the natural environment and its ecosystem services. The complex and interactive relationship of ecosystems, their services and human well-being is poorly acknowledged in the broad social, philosophical, psychological and economic well-being literature. In this article, we examine the role of nature and its ecosystem services in ecotherapy and its associated enhancement of recovery from physical and mental illness through a review of studies evaluating this ecosystem service-recovery connection.

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Ecotherapy – A Forgotten Ecosystem Service: A Review

Summers

Vivian

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…While camping has led to therapeutic benefits for older, mentally-ill female patients (e.g., Banaka & Young, 1985), literally nothing is known about other demographic variables (e.g., color, race).…”

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What Is the Therapeutic Value of Camping for Emotionally Disturbed Girls?

Levitt

1994

Women & Therapy

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Therapeutic camping in a wilderness or similar natural environment has led to personal, social, emotional, and cognitive benefits for emotionally disturbed girls. While emotionally disturbed boys derive similar benefits, there appears to be some evidence for differential effects of therapeutic camping based on gender. Criticisms of past research include the lack of control groups, random assignment of subjects, valid and reliable measures, statistical analyses, and long-term follow-up studies. Suggestions for the future include: (1) the development and analysis of more therapeutic camping programs for girls in same-gender and mixed-gender groups, (2) increased use of true experimental or quasi-experimental designs, (3) more research into the generalizability of therapeutic camping benefits to other populations and non-wilderness settings, (4) systematic research into what aspects of camping are therapeutic, and (5) the development of community-based programs and services incorporating those aspects of the camping programs found to be therapeutic.Therapeutic camping for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents has existed for over 50 years. The goals of such programs are to foster normal behavior patterns, emotions, and attitudes through camping in wilderness or similar natural environments.

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“…Researches on various fields are going on exploring the impacts of the natural and urban environments through various psychological and physiological methodologies in combination with statistical verifications (4-8). These findings suggested that natural environments not only lead to psychological stability such as a calm mood, but also to help in reducing stress.…”

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“…These findings suggested that natural environments not only lead to psychological stability such as a calm mood, but also to help in reducing stress. When people look at the natural scenic views, physiological indices such as heart rate, blood pressure, and so on, tend to normalize (4-6). Therefore, living in a nature-friendly environment acts as naturopathy and is a primer for crime prevention and improvements in self-control (7, 8).…”

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Functional Neuroanatomy Associated with Natural and Urban Scenic Views in the Human Brain: 3.0T Functional MR Imaging

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ObjectiveBy using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique we assessed brain activation patterns while subjects were viewing the living environments representing natural and urban scenery.Materials and MethodsA total of 28 healthy right-handed subjects underwent an fMRI on a 3.0 Tesla MRI scanner. The stimulation paradigm consisted of three times the rest condition and two times the activation condition, each of which lasted for 30 and 120 seconds, respectively. During the activation period, each subject viewed natural and urban scenery, respectively.ResultsThe predominant brain activation areas observed following exposure to natural scenic views in contrast with urban views included the superior and middle frontal gyri, superior parietal gyrus, precuneus, basal ganglia, superior occipital gyrus, anterior cingulate gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, and insula. On the other hand, the predominant brain activation areas following exposure to urban scenic views in contrast with natural scenes included the middle and inferior occipital gyri, parahippocampal gyrus, hippocampus, amygdala, anterior temporal pole, and inferior frontal gyrus.ConclusionOur findings support the idea that the differential functional neuroanatomies for each scenic view are presumably related with subjects' emotional responses to the natural and urban environment, and thus the differential functional neuroanatomy can be utilized as a neural index for the evaluation of friendliness in ecological housing.

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Community Coping Skills Enhanced by an Adventure Camp for Adult Chronic Psychiatric Patients

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Ecotherapy – A Forgotten Ecosystem Service: A Review

Ecotherapy – A Forgotten Ecosystem Service: A Review

What Is the Therapeutic Value of Camping for Emotionally Disturbed Girls?

Functional Neuroanatomy Associated with Natural and Urban Scenic Views in the Human Brain: 3.0T Functional MR Imaging

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