TY  - JOUR
AU  - Sen, Supatra
T1  - Green Care: Mitigating Stress with Plants
JO  - Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry
Y1  - 2024/december
VL  - 2024
IS  - 4
SP  - 30
EP  - 35
UR  - http://www.jspb.ru/issues/2024/N4/JSPB_2024_4_30-35.pdf
KW  - Green Therapy
KW  - Nature Therapy
KW  - Green Care
KW  - stress reversal
KW  - mental health
U1  - 1997-0838
N2  - Ecotherapy, also known as nature therapy or green therapy, is the applied practice of Ecopsychology a therapeutic treatment that involves outdoor activities in nature such as care farming, animal-assisted interventions (AAI), social and therapeutic horticulture (STH), healing gardens and facilitated green exercise. Natural environment because of its role in species evolution has a restorative impact on humans increasing happiness promoting neurotransmitter serotonin production, applicable to many medical phenomena. Humans have an innate biological affinity for the natural environment -the biophilia hypothesis and Biophilic design is an integral part of restorative environmental design, an approach that seeks to re-establish positive connections between nature and humanity.
ER  -