Ecotherapy: An Introduction Exam

By answering “true” to this question, I hereby certify that I have completed all five of the experiential exercises included in this course at least once.

Ecopsychology is:

Ecotherapy is:

The Green Care model is:

Ecotherapy is needed because:

True or false: Parents have become fearful about their children playing outdoors, and children who grow up in primarily built environments often fear nature, largely because it is unfamiliar

True or false: Kellert (2002) said that a child’s direct and ongoing experience of accessible nature is an essential, critical, and irreplaceable dimension of healthy maturation and development

True or false: E. O. Wilson (1984) does not believe that there is a biologically based, inherent human need to affiliate with life and lifelike processes

All of the following are examples of ancestral healing systems that are at least 5000 years old and see being in nature as integral to healing, health, and wellbeing EXCEPT:

True or false: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (2005, updated in 2008) coined the term “Nature Deficit Disorder”

Types of ecotherapy include all but the following:

True or false: Indigenous shamanic practices did not believe nature to be important

_________ requires the use of trained animals and/or a trained therapist/facilitator.

Looking after farm animals, growing crops or helping to manage woodlands and natural spaces is known as:

True or False: Young & Crandall (1984) have found that wilderness experiences did not improve a person’s sense of self-perception

True or False: Kellert (2002) found that cognitive, affective, and moral development is impacted significantly and positively by direct contact with nature

True or False: When asked to identify the most significant environment from their childhoods, 96.5 % of a broad sample of adults identified an outdoors environment (Sebba, 1991)

The Eco-Educative Model (Pedretti-Burls, 2007) includes all of the following strategies EXCEPT:

Kim et al (2009) describe using mindfulness with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) in a mindful walk through a forest before the CBT exercises. After studying this technique, the author concluded:

Spending time outdoors improves all of the following EXCEPT:

Milton Erickson helped a man to with alcohol addiction by giving him this “homework” task:

Shaw (2000) researched childhood nature connections and trauma, and observed the following:

True or False: If meeting one-on-one for ecotherapy, do so in a public park or other setting where there are plenty of people/witnesses for safety reasons

True or False: Most insurance companies will reimburse for ecotherapy sessions

Concerning privacy issues while doing ecotherapy outdoors, all of the following are true EXCEPT: