A world nourished by nature
Nature Therapy CIC
  • Home
  • Free Activities
  • Courses
  • Older people
  • Adults
  • Families
  • Children
  • Store
  • Nature Therapy blog
  • Intranet
  • Product
  • Drum Medicine Course
  • Order form Senior Sense Box

Hearts and Minds Nourished by Nature

Dr Kim Brown, Founder Director of Nature Therapy CIC

PLEASE NOTE - A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WRITE ESSAYS FOR A LIVING ARE COPYING ITEMS FROM THIS BLOG. THIS IS KNOWN AS PLAGARIASM. IF YOU ARE FOUND TO HAVE USED ANY OF THIS INFORMATION WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT THEN YOUR UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OR COLLEGE WILL BE INFORMED.

Home

ADHD and nature therapy

5/12/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Do you think nature therapy could be prescribed by the medical profession for ADHD?  Well, it seems we might be one step closer to this happening as part of a wider treatment plan. Impulsivity seems to be reduced by contact with green spaces according to research from the University of Illinois.

In case you are wondering why this blog has a picture of pumpkins - shortly after I took this admiring picture of the fruit of my labours from the garden which had carefully and lovingly been tended - one of them exploded. It wasn't just a slide into leakage or even  a general deterioration, it was a full on explosion up the walls. 

It reminded me of when I worked with young people who had a diagnosis of ADHD who could literally run up walls when confined.  The problem with my pumpkin was I had kept it indoors in a hot conservatory so I could picture it with its friends and show it off to mine.  It was just as wrong an environment for the little pumpkin as it was for any of those children encased in four walls so they could be educated. Education can take many different forms and nature, in my opinion, offers the best.  

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Dr Kim Brown

    Archives

    April 2020
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    December 2018
    May 2018
    August 2017
    May 2017
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photos used under Creative Commons from HikingArtist.com, Schwarzwert Naturfotografie, bagsgroove, symphony of love, vastateparksstaff, Martin Pettitt, Vilmos.Vincze, Sam Droege, rs-foto, TAKUMA KIMURA, Sumana Khanom, Joybot, Mr. Frosty Man, VinothChandar