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- Title
Cultivating Care: Trauma, Homeless Veterans, and Nature-Based Therapy.
- Authors
Hart, Becca; Zanskas, Steve
- Abstract
Homeless veterans experience compounding trauma as a result of their experiences both overseas and on the streets. The complexities reveal a tangled web of mental illness, substance abuse, and destructive behaviors that make routine housing-first solutions seem ineffectual, archaic, and misguided. Naturebased therapies, however, can supplement more conventional rehabilitation modalities to cultivate meaningful growth for this hard to reach population. Nature has been used for centuries in the healing process, but in recent decades, we have seen mounting evidence to support nature-based therapies as effective interventions for treating maladaptive mechanisms of trauma; namely issues concerning trust, emotional regulation, and socialization. Nature-based therapy is identified as a multidimensional yet practical approach for building out effective care programming aimed to cultivate the psychosocial health of homeless veterans.
- Publication
Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
1088-3487
- Publication type
Academic Journal