Feel blue? Touch green! Participation in forest/woodland management as a treatment for depression

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Health benefits of nature experience: Psychological, social and cultural processes (2011, background): “A growing openness to alterna-tive and complementary therapies has entailed increased attention to nature-based interventions such as therapeutic horticulture (e.g., Irvine and Warber 2002; Sempik et al. 2003; Townsend 2006; Gonzalez et al. in press).”
The influence of interaction with forest on cognitive function (2011, background): “For example, environmental psychologists assert that many psychological and physical afflictions are due to loss of contact with nature, and that interaction with nature can be beneficial (e.g. Cohen, 2000; Scull, 2001; Townsend, 2006).”