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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"therapeutic landscapes"”.
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'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry
… the constitution and the practice of a therapeutic technique known as Qur'anic healing (<em>al-'ilāj bi-l-qur'ān</em>). In contemporary Egypt, as throughout the Middle East, the past decades have witnessed the increased visibility and popularity of this revivalist, Salafi-based therapy …
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Therapeutic Landscapes and the Public Health Conceptualization of Alcohol-Related Illness in Moscow, Russia
In this dissertation, I argue that therapeutic landscapes for treating alcohol-related illnesses in Russia are key locations for the negotiation of alcohol-related illnesses as public health problems. I contend that therapeutic landscapes are centrally important in shaping public health …
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Multisensory Therapeutic Garden for a General Special Education School
Therapeutic landscapes involve the collaboration of landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and behavioral psychology. By incorporating research from each field and tailoring the design to a generalized special education elementary school, this project aims to create a multisensory …
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Green care in agriculture : a visual ethnographic study exploring the therapeutic landscape experiences of people with intellectual disabilities engaged in care farming activities
The use of agricultural landscapes to create interventions to improve health and wellbeing (care farming) is increasingly being advocated as a viable alternative to more traditional forms of health and social care. Yet the views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities (the UK care …
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Sensory Stimulating Sanctuaries - Creating spaces that improve and benefit wellbeing and mental health through sensory stimulating architectural techniques
… the work of Juhani Pallasmaa and Peter Zumthor. Therapeutic landscapes, as well as the theory of colour and biophilia help to identify the necessary spatial and material qualities that contribute to the favourable design of wellness centres. The understanding of these studies lead to a set of …
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Out and about : a sensory ethnographic study of therapeutic landscape experiences of people living with dementia in the wider community
… Drawing on the theoretical framework of therapeutic landscapes and a sensory ethnographic methodology, I provide social, embodied and symbolic accounts of people’s everyday experiences and pursuits of health and wellbeing within their neighbourhood and beyond. An in-depth examination of …
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Transfer Beyond Transplantation: Exploring the Lived Experiences and Embodied Geographies of Organ Recipients
… that these Olympic-style sporting events are therapeutic landscapes of social relations for organ recipients in three ways: providing a landscape of belonging, a landscape of hope, and a landscape of motivation. Ultimately, this thesis moves away from the UK’s current quantitative assessment …
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Marae food gardens: health and wellbeing through urban marae in Tāmaki Makaurau
… the sociocultural features of urban-indigenous therapeutic landscapes. These are places of indigenous health autonomy as indigenous peoples make decisions about programme outcomes and suitability of resources. Narrowing the focus of this research, I have explored the current circumstances of …
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Space, Place and Home: Lived experiences of hospice day care
… within a hospice day care unit. The concept of therapeutic landscapes (TL) was initially proposed as an analytical framework. However, through the analysis of the data it was evident that concepts from humanistic geography combined with a phenomenology of medicine provided a more fitting …
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Healing by a National Nature in "Disorganized" Mongolia
… focused on non-biomedical practices and therapeutic landscapes, especially medicinal springs (arshaan) and their sanatoria. This work contributes to studies of post-socialist Mongolia in a few ways. The methodological decision to engage in interview and participant observation of …
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Intergenerational healing : redefining the healthcare environment
… environment is important, and the integration of therapeutic landscapes has been used as a tool to enhance the inhabitants’ health. In particular, the incorporation of biophilic design principles has enabled the project to connect with nature, integrating both architecture and landscape.
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Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
… China in recent years. Through the lens of therapeutic landscape experience, individual and community well-being is examined with these questions: (1) what are participants’ experience of farming in this landscape; (2) if this experience benefits well-being on physical, psychological, and …
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Constrained spaces of prenatal care: South Asian immigrant women in New York City
… important spaces with physical as well as social therapeutic qualities. ‘Social therapeutic networks’, operating at multiple geographical scales were important in shaping women’s place-based experiences of pregnancy care. As these networks unfolded, places were recreated and/or transformed making …
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Health and wellbeing geographies of female domestic workers: Understanding space-time constraints and access to health-promoting places and social networks
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01