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What makes nature-based interventions for mental health successful?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dan Bloomfield
Dan Bloomfield*
Affiliation:
NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow in Environment and Health, University of Exeter, UK, email d.bloomfeld@exeter.ac.uk
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Nature-based interventions for mental health are beginning to become more common in the UK. The evidence for their usefulness is building. Taking the ‘A Dose of Nature’ project in the south-west as an example, factors for making such interventions a success are described.

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BJPsych International , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 2017 , pp. 82 - 85
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