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

MACHÁČKOVÁ, Karolina, Roman DUDÍK, Jiří ZELENÝ, Dana KOLÁŘOVÁ, Zbyněk VINŠ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

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

Authors

MACHÁČKOVÁ, Karolina, Roman DUDÍK, Jiří ZELENÝ, Dana KOLÁŘOVÁ, Zbyněk VINŠ and Marcel RIEDL

Edition

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Basel, Švýcarsko, MDPI, 2021, 1660-4601

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

University College Prague – University of International Relations and Institute of Hospitality Management and Economics, Ltd.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115725

UT WoS

WOS:00065996290

Keywords in English

forest fauna community; communication; social behaviour; aggression; projective tests; Shinrin-yoku; forest pedagogy

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 30/4/2023 00:41, Ing. Jiří Zelený, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

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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