David Francis Hunt, Gemma R Morshead, Rachel Hayes, Siobhan Mitchell, Beth Chapman, Carl Dutton, Anna Adlam, Catriona Mellor
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Background: Engaging children and young people (CYP) with natural environments while in healthcare can offer significant therapeutic benefits. Despite evidence supporting nature-based interventions, their use in CYP healthcare settings remains inconsistent. This article outlines how to integrate an eco-biopsychosocial model in healthcare, combining ecological aspects with traditional biopsychosocial frameworks to improve health outcomes, placing CYP within their social and ecological contexts, and promoting holistic, person-centred care.
Methods: Through a series of meetings, clinicians and practitioners involved in nature-based approaches (NBAs) projects in the UK shared their expertise. They reflected on their experiences and identified patterns in the learning related to implementing these activities and embedding them into practice. The projects included: (1) Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. (2) Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. (3) Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Results: We discuss the importance of NBAs within national healthcare frameworks and provide successful examples from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. These case studies highlight the potential for a positive impact on wellbeing, resilience and staff satisfaction. Key strategies for implementing the model include relational, procedural, and environmental factors for creating a culture of nature-based practice.
Conclusions: This innovation in practice article emphasises the need for governance, evaluation and dissemination to ensure the sustainability of these initiatives. By adopting this integrative approach, we aim to reduce health inequalities and promote a shift towards a nature-inclusive strategy in healthcare, which promotes the long-term wellbeing of CYP as well as supports more sustainable services.
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) publishes high quality, peer-reviewed child and adolescent mental health services research of relevance to academics, clinicians and commissioners internationally. The journal''s principal aim is to foster evidence-based clinical practice and clinically orientated research among clinicians and health services researchers working with children and adolescents, parents and their families in relation to or with a particular interest in mental health. CAMH publishes reviews, original articles, and pilot reports of innovative approaches, interventions, clinical methods and service developments. The journal has regular sections on Measurement Issues, Innovations in Practice, Global Child Mental Health and Humanities. All published papers should be of direct relevance to mental health practitioners and clearly draw out clinical implications for the field.
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