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Development of the Nature-Based Therapy Concept for Patients with Stress-Related Illness at the Danish Healing Forest Garden Nacadia Sus Sola Corazon, Ulrika K. Stigsdotter, Anne Grete Claudi Jensen, and Kjell Nilsson 2010: XX JOURNAL OF THERAPEUTIC HORTICULTURE 35 In 2007 Forest Landscape Denmark, a BACKGROUND center at the University of Copenhagen, According to the World Health Organization (WHO), initiated a research and development project stress has become a growing global problem and called the Healing Forest Garden Nacadia constitutes a risk factor for developing illnesses such as (in short: Nacadia). Nacadia will be built coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, and depression (WHO, 2006, 2008; Aldwin, 2007). Stress is further during the spring of 2010 and ready to receive considered a risk factor for premature death (Nielsen, patients the following summer. The aim of Kristensen, Schnor Grønbæk, 2008). During stress, our this paper is to describe the nature-based body organs react in many different ways, and if sustained therapy (NBT) concept and design of Nacadia. for an inappropriately long time without the possibility The NBT concept describes the theoretical of recovery, these reactions become dysfunctional and framework around the treatment. It is based harmful, with the risk of causing deleterious changes to, on the therapeutic use of sensory experiences, for instance, the cardiovascular system and the neuro- horticultural activitie