Month: October 2018

The effectiveness of wilderness therapy as mental health treatment for adolescents in Norway: a mixed methods evaluation This paper investigates the effectiveness of a Norwegian wilderness therapy programme, Friluftsterapi, which is offered to adolescents within a specialized mental health care setting. This mixed methods study incorporated (1) psychometric pre-, post-, and 12 month follow-up data, …

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This literature review was conducted to investigate the specifically defined core elements of the Adventure Therapy (AT) methodology, as applied to working with disadvantaged and at-risk youth. The identification of the key-elements was conducted within the framework of international project work, mainly during practical workshop presentations and post-processing of these workshops. Read more…

Project entitled “Outdoor Academy coaching and outdoor education in youth field” was a strategic partnership between organizations from Poland, Romania, Italy, Germany and Greece. Project was led by Foundation Institute of Animation and Social Development supported by Foundation Pracownia Nauki i Przygody, both from Poland. Partner organisations were: Outward Bound Romania, ASD L’Orma from Italy, …

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This manual is the result of a unique project called “Outdoor Academy: coaching and outdoor education in youth field”, organized in the framework of the Erasmus+ Program. During this program, we designed and tested dozens of scenarios, implemented different outdoor education approaches and experimented with various settings. A more detailed overview of the project’s history …

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Thirty-one ethnographic interviews were conducted with health and well-being sector businesses to examine the dynamics of innovation in the UK (Cornwall) and across Finland. The Nordic countries are at the leading edge of these types of public health nature-based interventions, consequently, Finland was chosen as a comparator to the UK. We found that the construction …

Public Health and Well-being Innovation in the Natural environment Sector: Lessons from the UK and Finland Read More »