Health, Sports & Psychology
Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
...skills, a sense of achievement, responsibility and increased confidence. [Part of a parterre in an English garden.] Having worked as a ‘horticultural therapist’ in the 1980s and 1990s with service users leaving the old long-stay mental hospitals I certainly agree that many people with mental health problems did seem to experience these benefits. However, as the years...