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Взаимодействие с миром растений как источник позитивного функционирования человека
The review article examines the restorative potential of interaction with flora for the physical and mental health of a person and their psychological well-being. The plant world is a particular part of nature, characterized by responsiveness, aesthetic appeal, and unobtrusive. These qualities make plants an effective means of restoring cognitive abilities, emotional state, as well as developing personal effectiveness and behavioral competence. At the same time, it is noted that, due to the phenomenon of plant blindness, their recovery resource is not used enough. The types of psychotherapy using plants (ecotherapy, horticultural therapy, adventure) are analyzed. Theories explaining the mechanisms of influence of plants on the people's psyche (the biophilia hypothesis, the attention restoration theory, the stress recovery (reduction) theory, and psychotherapeutic theory of phyto-resonance) are presented. The article collects the results of studies showing the beneficial effect of different forms of interaction with the plant world (gardening, walking in the forest and park, simulation of the natural environment) on physical health and recovery from various types of somatic diseases, on attention, creativity, behavior, and social development of a person. The effectiveness of interaction with flora is also noteworthy in the case of working with particular groups of people (adolescents from risk groups, offenders, and carriers of psychiatric diagnoses). We analyze the limitations of research, mainly related to their design.