Outdoor Therapies

<p>Drawing on the leading voices of international researchers and practitioners <i>Outdoor Therapies</i> provides readers with an overview of practices for the helping professions.</p><p>Sharing outdoor approaches ranging from garden therapy to wilderness therapy and from equine-assisted therapy to surf therapy Harper and Dobud have drawn common threads from therapeutic practices that integrate connection with nature and experiential activity to redefine the person-in-environment approach to human health and well-being. Readers will learn about the benefits and advantages of helping clients get the treatment service and care they need outside of conventional office-based therapies. </p><p>Providing readers with a range of approaches that can be utilized across a variety of practice settings and populations this book is essential reading for students practitioners theorists and researchers in counseling social work youth work occupational therapy and psychology.</p>