Research and Resources

Care Farming Works.

Research demonstrates measurable, repeatable, and beneficial effects from the care farming model.

When we care for land, gardens, and animals, we are better equipped to care for ourselves.

Resources

Care Farming

  • de Bruin, S. R., Pedersen, I., Eriksen, S., Hassink, J., Vaandrager, L., & Patil, G. G. “Care farming for people with dementia; what can healthcare leaders learn from this innovative care concept?” Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 12, 11-18: 2020.

  • de Bruin, Simone R, Annerieke Stoop, Claudia C. M Molema, Lenneke Vaandrager, Peter J. W. M Hop, and Caroline A Baan. “Green Care Farms: An Innovative Type of Adult Day Service to Stimulate Social Participation of People with Dementia.” Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine 1 (2015): 233372141560783–83. doi:10.1177/2333721415607833.

  • Elings, M. “Care Farming: Making a Meaningful Connection between Agriculture, Health Care and Society,”  K. Zywert, & S. Quilley (Eds.), Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet (pp. 226-240). University of Toronto Press: 2020.

  • Gallis, Christos. Green Care : For Human Therapy, Social Innovation, Rural Economy, and Education. Public Health in the 21st Century. New York: Nova Biomedical, 2013.

  • Hassink, Jan, de, Simone R Bruin, Bente Berget, and Marjolein Elings. “Exploring the Role of Farm Animals in Providing Care at Care Farms.” Animals 7, no. 6 (2017).

  • Hassink, J., Hulsink, W., & Grin, J. (2014). “Farming with care: the evolution of care farming in the Netherlands.” NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 68, 1-11.

  • Hassink, J., Moriggi, A., Senni, S., Hense, E., & de Moor, D. “Caring agricultural and food practices,” J. Duncan, M. Carolan, & J. S. C. Wiskerke (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of sustainable and regenerative food systems (pp. 126-140). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

  • K. Zywert, & S. Quilley (Eds.). Health in the Anthropocene: Living Well on a Finite Planet. University of Toronto Press, 2020.

  • Lee AY, Kim SO, Gim GM, Kim DS, and Park SA. “Care Farming Program for Family Health: A Pilot Study with Mothers and Children.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 1 (2019). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17010027.

  • Relf, Tim. "Care Farming Gains Momentum." Farmers Weekly 153, no. 25 (Dec 31, 2010): 70, https://dts.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/care-farming-gains-momentum/docview/857097765/se-2?accountid=7147.

  • Thieleman, Kara, Cacciator,e & Richard Gorman (2021) “Perhaps something of beauty can grow:” experiences of care farming for grief, Death Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2021.1964108.

Interventions for Post-Traumatic Growth

  • Ayala, K. & Groves, T. “Implementing the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, “ Foster Family-based Treatment Association, 21:2 pp 1-4: 2015.

  • C. Malchiodi & D. A. Crenshaw, Eds. Play and Creative Arts Therapy for Attachment Problems. New York, Guilford Press, 2013.

  • Gil, Eliana. Working With Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma: The Power of Play. New York, NY. Guilford Press, 2010.

  • Hambrick, Erin P, Soraya Seedat, and Bruce D Perry. “Editorial: How the Timing, Nature, and Duration of Relationally Positive Experiences Influence Outcomes in Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 15 (2021). doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2021.755959.

  • Howard, A.R., Nielsen, L., Parris, S.R., Lusk, R., Bush, K., Purvis, K.B., & Cross, D. R. “Keeping adoptive families together: Predicting changes in parenting stress and child psychiatric behaviors from parental investment in a trauma-informed intervention,” Child Welfare: 2015.

  • J. Ford & C. Courtois, Eds. Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Guilford Press, New York, 2013.

  • Levine, Peter A, and Ann Frederick. Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1997.

  • A. Levine, Peter, and Maggie Kline. “It Won't Hurt Forever: Guiding Your Child through Trauma.” Mothering 110, no. 110 (2002).

  • MacKinnon, L. “The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics: An interview with Bruce Perry,” The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 33:3 pp 210-218: 2012.

  • Parris, S.R., Dozier, M., Purvis, K.B., Whitney, C., Grisham, A., & Cross, D.R. “ Implementing Trust-Based Relational Intervention in a charter school at a residential facility for at-risk youth,” Contemporary School Psychology, 19(3), 157-164. Doi: 10.1007/s40688-014-0033-7: 2015.

  • Perry, B.D. & Dobson, C. “The role of healthy relational interactions in buffering the impact of childhood trauma,” Working with Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma: The Power of Play. Guilford Press, New York 2010.

  • Purvis, K.B., Razuri, E. B., Howard, A.R., Call, C., DeLuna, J., Hall, J.S., & Cross, D. R. “Decrease in behavioral problems and trauma symptoms among at-risk adopted children following trauma-informed parent training intervention,” Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma: 2015.

  • Purvis, K.B., Milton, H.S., Harlow, J.G., Parris, S.R., & Cross, D.R.“The importance of addressing complex trauma in schools: Implementing Trust-Based Relational Intervention in an elementary school,” ENGAGE: An International Journal on Research and Practices in School Engagement 1(2): 2015.

  • Purvis, K.B., Cross, D.R., Jones, D., & Buff, G. (2012) “Transforming cultures of care: A case study in organizational change,” Reclaiming Children and Youth, Special Edition on Practice-Based Evidence, 21(2), 12-20: 2012.

  • Purvis, K.B., Cross, D. R., Federici, R., Johnson, D., & McKenzie, L.B.. “The Hope Connection: A therapeutic summer day camp for adopted and at-risk children with special socio-emotional needs” Adoption & Fostering, 31(4), 38-48: 2007.

  • Purvis, K.B. & Cross, D.R. “Improvements in salivary cortisol, depression, and representations of family relationships in at-risk adopted children utilizing a short-term therapeutic intervention,” Adoption Quarterly, 10(1), 25-43: 2006.

  • Razuri, E. B., Howard, A.R., Call, C., DeLuna, J., Hall, J.S., Purvis, K.B., & Cross, D. R. “Decrease in behavioral problems and trauma symptoms among at-risk adopted children following trauma-informed web-based trauma-informed parent training intervention,” Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 1-14: 2015.

  • Smith, Marti. The Connected Therapist: Relating Through the Senses. Marti Smith Seminars, May 2021, http://www.creativetherapies.com.

  • Sori, C.F. & Schnur, S. “Integrating a neurosequential approach in the treatment of traumatized children: An interview with Eliana Gil, Part II,”  The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families xx(x) pp. 1-8 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713514945: 2013.

  • Tedeschi, Philip, and Molly Anne Jenkins. Transforming Trauma : Resilience and Healing through Our Connections with Animals. New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2019.

Trauma-Informed Care

  • Anda, R.F., Felitti, R.F., Walker, J., Whitfield, C., Bremner, D.J., Perry, B.D., Dube, S.R., Giles, W.G.  “The enduring effects of childhood abuse and related experiences: a convergence of evidence from neurobiology and epidemiology,”  European Archives of Psychiatric and Clinical Neuroscience, 256 (3): 2006.

  • CDC-Kaiser ACE Study: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html.

  • Gaskill. R. L. & Perry, B.D. “Child sexual abuse, traumatic experiences and their effect on the developing brain,” Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Identification, Assessment and Treatment  (P. Goodyear-Brown, Ed) Wiley, New York, 2012.

  • Harris, Nadine. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. New York, NY., U.S.A.: Nadine Harris, 2018.

  • National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine. www.nicabm.com.

  • Perry, Bruce Duncan, and Maia Szalavitz. 2017. The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog : And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook : What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing. Revised and updated edition. Second trade paperback ed. New York, 2017.

  • ​Perry, B.D.  “Maltreatment and the developing child: How early childhood experience shapes child and culture,”  The Inaugural Margaret McCain lecture (abstracted); McCain Lecture series, The Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System, London, ON: 2005.

  • ​Perry, B.D.  “Childhood experience and the expression of genetic potential: what childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture,”  Brain and Mind 3: 2002.

  • Perry, B.D. and Pollard, D.  “Altered brain development following global neglect in early childhood,”  Soc. For Neuroscience, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1997.

  • ​Perry, B.D. “Bonding and attachment in maltreated children: Consequences of emotional neglect in childhood,” CTA Parent and Caregiver Education Series  Volume 1: Issue 3, ChildTrauma Academy Press: 1999.

  • Perry, B.D. , Edited by J. Goodwin and R. Attias. Memories of Fear “Splintered Reflections: Images of the Body in Trauma,” New York, NY, U.S.A. Basic Books, 1999.

  • ​Perry, B.D.  Helping traumatized children: A brief overview for caregivers, CTA Parent and Caregiver Education Series Volume 1: Issue 5, ChildTrauma Academy Press: 1999.

  • Perry, B.D. “Children and Loss,” Parent & Child 8:2: 2000.

  • Perry, B.D.  “The cost of caring: Understanding and preventing secondary traumatic stress when working with traumatized and maltreated children,” CTA Parent and Caregiver Education Series  Volume 2: Issue 7, ChildTrauma Academy Press: 2014.

  • ​Perry, B.D.  “Child maltreatment: the role of abuse and neglect in developmental psychopathology.” Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (Eds., Theodore P. Beauchaine & Stephen P. Hinshaw) Wiley, New York, 2008.

  • Perry, B.D. “Incubated in terror: Neurodevelopmental factors in the ‘cycle of violence’,” Children In a Violent Society (J Osofsky, Ed.). Guilford Press, New York, 1997.

  • Perry, B.D., Pollard, R., Blakely, T., Baker, W., & Vigilante, D.  “Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaptation and ‘use-dependent’ development of the brain: How ‘states’ become ‘traits’,”  Infant Mental Health J, 16 (4): 1995.

  • Perry, B.D. & Pollard, R.  “Homeostasis, stress, trauma, and adaptation: a neurodevelopmental view of childhood trauma,” Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 7; 1: 1998.

  • Perry, B.D.   “Examining child maltreatment through a neurodevelopmental lens: clinical application of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics,” Journal of Loss and Trauma 14: 240-255: 2009.

  • Perry, B.D. and Azad, I.  “Post-traumatic stress disorders in children,” Current Opinions in Pediatrics, 11:4 : 1999.

  • Perry, B.D. “The neurodevelopmental impact of violence in childhood”  Textbook of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry, (Eds., D. Schetky and E.P. Benedek) American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, D.C. pp. 191-203: 2002.

  • Read, J. Fosse, R., Moskowitz, A. & Perry, B.D.  “Traumagentic neurodevelopmental model of psychosis revisited,”  Neuropsychiatry 4 (1): 1 – 15: 2014.

  • Read, J., Perry, B.D., Moskowitz, A. & Connolly, J.  “The contribution of early traumatic events to schizophrenia in some patients: a traumagenic neurodevelopmental model,”  Psychiatry 64 (4)  319-345: 2001.

  • Schwartz, Richard. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wellness with Internal Family Systems Model. Boulder, CO, USA: Sounds True Inc, 2021.

  • Supin, Jeanne. “The Long Shadow: Bruce Perry on the Lingering Effects of Childhood Trauma,” The Sun  4-13 : Nov., 2016.

  • Van Der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, NY., U.S.A.: Penguin Random House LLC, 2014.

Theology

  • Barker, Kenneth L, and Donald W Burdick. The Niv Study Bible, New International Version. Grand Rapids, Mich., U.S.A.: Zondervan Bible, 1985.

  • Biblical Studies Press. Net Bible : New English Translation. 1St Beta ed. Spokane, Wash.: Biblical Studies Press, 2001.

  • Bouma-Prediger, Steven. For the Beauty of the Earth : A Christian Vision for Creation Care. Engaging Culture. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2001.

  • J. Douglas Bremner.Traumatic stress:effects on the Brain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181836/.

  • Crossway Bibles. The Holy Bible : English Standard Version : The Esv Study Bible. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Bibles, 2008.

  • Davis, Ellen F. Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture : An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

  • Demarest, Bruce A. The Cross and Salvation : The Doctrine of Salvation. Foundations of Evangelical Theology, Vol. 1. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1997.

  • Fitzpatrick, Elyse. Found in Him.  Wheaton, IL.: Crossway, 2013.

  • Holsteen, Nathan D, ed. Exploring Christian Theology. Vol. Volume II, Creation, Fall, and Salvation. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House, 2015.

  • Merritt, Jonathan. Green Like God : Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet. New York: FaithWords, 2010.

  • Reeves, Michael. Delighting in the Trinity : An Introduction to the Christian Faith. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012.

  • Swindoll, Charles R. Jesus : The Greatest Life of All. Great Lives from God's Word. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008.