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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep-22
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Creating and Teaching a Course in Ecotherapy: We Went to the Woods
Davis, Keith M.; Atkins, Sally S.
Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, v43 n2 p211 Fall 2004
The authors describe the creation and implementation of a graduate-level counseling course in ecotherapy. Specifically, the rationale for the course, the selection of students, and course content and activities are outlined. In the spring of 2001, the authors developed and offered a team-taught special topics course in ecotherapy in the university's graduate counseling program. For this course, ecotherapy was based on an organic rather than a mechanistic theory, with the living system of the earth as the focus. This article presents the story of the authors' journey, as a community of learners, into concepts of ecotherapy, the lessons of other cultural worldviews, and most basically, the lessons of the natural world.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Course Content, Counselor Training, Counselors, Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques, Outdoor Education, Ecology, Graduate Students
American Counseling Association, 5999 Stevenson Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304. Web site: http://www.counseling.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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