Nature-Based Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Notes to the Reader
• 1. An Introduction to Nature for Therapy
• 2. Outdoor Therapies: A Choice of Paths to Follow
• 3. Why Nature-based Therapy for Children, Youth, and Families?
• 4. Making the Choice to Take Therapy Outside
• 5. Nature-based Play, Regulation, and Healthy Neurophysiology
• 6. Outdoor Risky Play in Nature-based Therapy
• 7. Nature as Co-therapist
• 8. Nature-based Therapy for Families
• 9. Multi-family Nature-based Therapy
• 10. Group Applications in Nature-based Therapy
• 11. Ethics in Nature-based Therapy
• Appendix A: Developing a Nature-based Therapy Practice
• Appendix B: Suggested Clothing and Equipment/Materials List
• Notes
• Index
• About the Authors
• About New Society Publishers