Research suggests great therapeutic potential in water-immersion and marine-based therapy for mental wellness, with the ability to treat a variety of conditions.
PTSD/Depression
- Therapeutic Effects of Deep Diving on Mental Health
- The Healing Power of Surf Therapy for PTSD
- Water Immersion and PTSD (2019)
- The long-term effect of surf therapy on posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety symptomology (2024)
- High intensity sports for PTSD: A Feasibility study of Ocean Therapy with Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans
- The impact of Ocean Therapy on Veterans with PTSD
- Sea swimming as a novel intervention for depression and anxiety (2022)
Physical and Mental Wellbeing
- The wellbeing benefits of sea swimming (2019) Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 12(5), 647–663.
- Swimming in nature: A scoping review of the mental health and wellbeing benefits of open water swimming
- Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice: Special Issue on Surf Therapy Around the Globe
- Nichols, Wallace J., author. Blue Mind : the Surprising Science That Shows How Being near, in, on, or under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected and Better at What You Do
- A Qualitative Study on Emotions Experienced at the Coast and Their Influence on Well-Being (2022)
- Sensing Water: Uncovering Health and Well-Being in the Sea and Surf
- Blue Care: a Systematic Review of Blue Space Interventions for Health and Wellbeing (2018)
Youth + Disabilities
- Associations between Nature Exposure and Heath: Highlighting Children and youth
- Benefits of Surfing for Children with Disabilities: A Pilot Study
- Surfing and the Senses: Using Body Mapping to Understand the Embodied and Therapeutic Experiences of Young Surfers with Autism (2020)
- Sri Lankan Women and Girls to Enjoy the Wellbeing Benefits of the Ocean (2022)
- How a SURFing Social Skills Curriculum Can Impact Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Effectiveness of surf therapy for children with disabilities (2019)
- Surf therapy for improving child and adolescent mental health: A pilot randomised control trial (2022)
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