What does care farming provide for clients? The views of care farm staff
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The “Green Care Approach” – An Antidote to the Disconnected Human Crisis
Lalita Powell is the founder of Lakota Fields (a not-for-profit holistic horse sanctuary offering equine-assisted personal development and learning opportunities). She writes: “Even though pharmaceutical intervention and talking therapies are still the most popular form of intervention offered by the NHS in…
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The Development of Green Care in Western European Countries
This review-article appeared in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. The publishers say that it: “… represents a review of green care across Western European countries. The following questions are addressed: What is green care, and what are its basic goals? What are the most commonly…
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Cultivating our humanity: A systematic review of care farming & traumatic grief
This review essay is co-authored by Dr. Richard Gorman and Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. The abstract says: “Traumatic grief is a complex biopsychosocial experience, frequently (and contentiously) medicalized in the Western world. Care farming is an increasingly popular place-based intervention utilizing agricultural settings…
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