Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods ...

@article{26885,
   author = {Macháčková, Karolina and Dudík, Roman and Zelený, Jiří and Kolářová, Dana and Vinš, Zbyněk and Riedl, Marcel},
   article_location = {Basel, Švýcarsko},
   article_number = {11},
   doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115725},
   keywords = {forest fauna community; communication; social behaviour; aggression; projective tests; Shinrin-yoku; forest pedagogy},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {1660-4601},
   journal = {International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health},
   title = {Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach},
   url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/11/5725},
   volume = {18},
   year = {2021}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 26885
AU  - Macháčková, Karolina - Dudík, Roman - Zelený, Jiří - Kolářová, Dana - Vinš, Zbyněk - Riedl, Marcel
PY  - 2021
TI  - Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach
JF  - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
VL  - 18
IS  - 11
PB  - MDPI
SN  - 16604601
KW  - forest fauna community
KW  - communication
KW  - social behaviour
KW  - aggression
KW  - projective tests
KW  - Shinrin-yoku
KW  - forest pedagogy
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/11/5725
N2  - This paper evaluates the impact of the forest environment on aggressive manifestations in adolescents. A remedial educative programme was performed with 68 teenagers from institutions with substitute social care with diagnoses F 30.0 (affective disorders) and F 91.0 (family-related behavioural disorders), aged 12–16 years. Adolescents observed patterns of prosocial behaviour in forest animals (wolves, wild boars, deer, bees, ants, squirrels and birds), based on the fact that processes and interactions in nature are analogous to proceedings and bonds in human society. The methodology is based on qualitative and quantitative research. Projective tests (Rorschach Test, Hand Test, Thematic Apperception Test) were used as a diagnostic tool for aggressive manifestations before and after forest therapies based on Shinrin-yoku, wilderness therapy, observational learning and forest pedagogy. Probands underwent 16 therapies lasting for two hours each. The experimental intervention has a statistically significant effect on the decreased final values relating to psychopathology, irritability, restlessness, emotional instability, egocentrism, relativity, and negativism. Forest animals demonstrated to these adolescents ways of communication, cooperation, adaptability, and care for others, i.e., characteristics without which no community can work.
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MACHÁČKOVÁ, Karolina, Roman DUDÍK, Jiří ZELENÝ, Dana KOLÁŘOVÁ, Zbyněk VINŠ a Marcel RIEDL. Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach. \textit{International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health}. Basel, Švýcarsko: MDPI, 2021, roč.~18, č.~11, 20 s. ISSN~1660-4601. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115725.