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The Healing Power of the Ocean : the Positive Effects of Ocean Environments on Health and Wellbeing

Ising, Anja; Kerényi, Zsófia; Becker, Mariana; Tomicevic-Dubljevic, Jelena; Lidfors, Lena; Pálsdóttir, Anna María

Abstract

The international master’s program, Outdoor Environments for Health and Well-Being, leads to a Master of Science degree specializing in environmental psychology. The program covers health-promoting outdoor environments throughout the lifespan, evidence-based health design, occupational aspects, and the One Health concept. One of the courses offered is Nature and Animal-Assisted Interventions (MP0009), which focuses on occupations, occupational performance, and values performed with natural elements and/or animals in indoor or outdoor settings, i.e., a place independent occupational performances for health promotion. This fact sheet is a final assignment of the student´s work, presented at the NAAI course conference in 2024.

Keywords

Ocean Therapy; health and well-being; multi-sensory experience; nature-based interventions; embodied experience.

Published in

LTV-fakultetens faktablad
2024, number: 2024:9Publisher: Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences