Postgraduate Course: Nature, Green Space and Mental Health (CNST11072)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will bring together research and insights from counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, outdoor education, landscape architecture and human geography to provide
- a critical overview of evidence for the impact (both negative and positive) of nature and outdoor activities on mental health;
- an overview of the ways in which nature and the outdoors are enrolled in a variety of therapeutic practices;
- a discussion of the contributions counselling, psychotherapy and psychology might make to addressing environmental issues and to supporting people and communities in transitioning to more sustainable lifestyles.
It will also provide an opportunity for students to reflect upon their own relationship with nature and outdoor activities and to explore how they might practically use what they learn in the course in their own practices as counsellors, psychotherapists, educators and activists.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically assess the evidence for the impact of nature and outdoor activities on mental health.
- Evaluate the ways in which practitioners in counselling, psychotherapy, and wilderness and adventure therapy work with nature and outdoor activities in therapeutic work.
- Appreciate the breadth of ways in which counselling and psychotherapy might contribute to supporting transitions to more sustainable lifestyles and to responding to the impacts of environmental crises.
- Make informed choices about working with nature and/or outdoor activities in their own practice (or prospective practice).
- Critically reflect on their own relationship to nature and outdoor activities.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Alette Willis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3881
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Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
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