{"id":2759,"date":"2023-11-30T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2023-11-30T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:44:57","slug":"movement-emerges-to-include-green-space-as-a-social-determinant-of-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/movement-emerges-to-include-green-space-as-a-social-determinant-of-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement Emerges to Include Green Space as a Social Determinant of Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A rich and growing literature shows that immersion in nature and exposure to green space has a measurable impact on health and mental health. This is the first in a three-part series.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a recent Saturday in Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C., Sarah Dewitt, a certified forest therapy guide, led a handful of people in the ancient Japanese practice of \u201cShinrin-yoku\u201d\u2014forest breathing or forest bathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cForest bathing is a very slow and mindful walk in nature,\u201d Dewitt told\u00a0<em>Psychiatric News<\/em>. \u201cIt starts with a warm-up in which I invite participants to tune into each of their senses one at a time. Then I might invite them to wander out in the woods and pay close attention to all the things that are in motion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read and listen to the article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/psychnews.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/appi.pn.2023.11.11.17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/psychnews.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/appi.pn.2023.11.11.17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich and growing literature shows that immersion in nature and exposure to green space has a measurable impact on health and mental health. This is the first in a three-part series. On a recent Saturday in Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C., Sarah Dewitt, a certified forest therapy guide, led a handful of people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-and-mental-health-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/images_medium_rock-creek-park.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-Iv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}