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[https://theconversation.com/children-need-the-freedom-to-play-on-driveways-and-streets-again-heres-how-to-make-it-happen-254543 by Debbie Watson 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
In many cases, children don’t have easy access to purpose-built spaces like playgrounds. They need adults to get them there. Without the use of more informal spaces to spend time with other children, this means they often lack daily opportunities for play. | |||
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Revision as of 17:32, 26 June 2025
Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen
by Debbie Watson 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION
In many cases, children don’t have easy access to purpose-built spaces like playgrounds. They need adults to get them there. Without the use of more informal spaces to spend time with other children, this means they often lack daily opportunities for play.
UCSF researchers suggest this 4-minute Yosemite video boosts happiness
by Olivia Harden 17/6/25 SFGATE
A group of researchers at UC San Francisco conducted a study to prove that small acts of joy can add up. One of their methods was showing a 4-minute video to immerse participants in the most popular national parks in California.
Visiting green spaces deters mental health drug use, researchers find
by Damien Gayle 1/17/23 The Guardian
Visits to parks, community gardens and other urban green spaces may lower city dwellers’ use of drugs for anxiety, insomnia, depression, high blood pressure, and asthma, research has found.
Researchers in Finland found that visiting such areas three to four times a week cuts people’s chances of turning to drugs for mental health problems or high blood pressure by a third, and for asthma by about a quarter.1
How mindfulness privatised a social problem
The connection between stress and economics is well documented. In their 2009 book The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson identified a strong correlation between inequality and poor reported mental health. In a report published last month, Dr Dainius Puras, the UN’s special rapporteur on health, stated that confronting inequality would be a more effective prophylactic for poor mental health than excessive therapy or medication.
Yet governments often opt for treatments that focus on the individual rather than social maladies. “Most don’t want to be thinking about how their policies might be contributing to problems in the first place,” says David Harper, a clinical psychologist at the University of East London. In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), a treatment that focuses on raising awareness of negative emotions and developing coping strategies.
A preoccupation with the symptoms of mental illness, rather than their social causes, is because there’s no “big drug lobby behind prevention”, Harper says. Treatments such as CBT have proved a cost-effective cattle prod for herding the mentally ill off welfare benefits. As chancellor, George Osborne introduced the therapy for 40,000 recipients of Jobseeker’s Allowance as part of a back-to-work agenda.
