Ecotherapy Certificate Program: Nature Connection Practices that Heal

For CEC Attendees (9 Hours):

1. Identify at least three examples of empirical support for ecotherapy as an evidence-based practice
2. Identify at least one example of a population, setting and condition appropriate to ecotherapy intervention
3. Differentiate horticultural, animal-facilitated, wilderness therapies, forest therapy and art therapies as applied methods.
4. Describe at least two topics which characterize current developments in community and cultural ecotherapies
5. Formulate an effective intervention addressing eco-anxiety, eco-grief and climate trauma in climate disaster situations.
6. Describe three ethical issues related to ecotherapy treatments.
7. Apply criteria for Nature Deficit Disorder to at least two discrete treatment goals
8. Name one function that ecotherapists might serve as First Responders in treating climate emergency trauma.
9. Identify two important aspects of ecoresilience.