Bush Adventure Therapy & Outdoor Health: A Bio-Psycho-Socio-Eco Approach to Mental Health

In this course, Dr. Anita Pryor (Director, Adventure Works Australia; Program Manager, Out Bush on Country) and Ben Knowles (Director, Adventure Works Australia) share statistics detailing the worsening global health outcomes and concomitant need for non-pharmaceutical interventions to treat conditions such as anxiety and depression. Outdoor adventure therapy, or outdoor health, is emerging as a rich set of practices with a burgeoning evidence base to support benefits on multiple levels to those engaging it. Pryor and Knowles outline the many organisations and initiatives which have come together in recent years under the umbrella term of outdoor health and challenge you to reflect on ways you could bring more connection with nature into your practice.