Ambra Burls
Senior lecturer
Anglia Ruskin University
Correspondence to:
Ambra Burls
Institute of Health and
Social Care
Anglia Ruskin University
Bishop Hall Lane
Chelmsford CM1 1SQ
a.
burls@
btopenworld.
com
RESEARCH
24 journalofpublicmentalhealth...
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Ambra Burls
Senior lecturer
Anglia Ruskin University
Correspondence to:
Ambra Burls
Institute of Health and
Social Care
Anglia Ruskin University
Bishop Hall Lane
Chelmsford CM1 1SQ
a.
burls@
btopenworld.
com
RESEARCH
24 journalofpublicmentalhealth
vol6•issue3
© Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd
Drawing on the author’s multi-method research on the viability of specific ecotherapy practitioner
training and curriculum design, this paper debates how the use of ecotherapeutic approaches can
provide a two-pronged system to achieve both individual health (at micro level) and public and
environment health outcomes (at macro level).
The research sought the views of service users,
practitioners and educationalists through use of interviews, focus groups, a nominal group, and an
ethnographic case study group.
This research raised other considerations:namely,that people seeking
personal recovery also,through stewardship of green spaces,may achieve unanticipated social capital
and natural capital ou
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