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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Helena Horton

Space to grow: wilderness therapy could help abuse survivors

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The Wilderness Foundation’s garden at the Chelsea flower show. Photograph: Sarah M Lee/The Guardian

Wilderness therapy and access to green space may help domestic abuse survivors heal while improving therapy outcomes, a study has found.

Scientists from the University of Essex worked with the Wilderness Foundation, a charity that offers outdoor therapy programmes, to see if treatment in the natural world could work better, or alongside, traditional methods.

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