MACHÁČKOVÁ, Karolina, Roman DUDÍK, Jiří ZELENÝ, Dana KOLÁŘOVÁ, Zbyněk VINŠ and Marcel RIEDL. Forest Manners Exchange: Forest as a Place to Remedy Risky Behaviour of Adolescents: Mixed Methods Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Basel, Švýcarsko: MDPI, 2021, vol. 18, No 11, 20 pp. ISSN 1660-4601. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115725.
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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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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
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Jiří Zelený, Ph.D., učo 10755. Changed: 30/4/2023 00:41.
Abstract
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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