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Horticulture Therapy in the Treatment of Brain Injury
Published in Gregory J. Murrey, Alternate Therapies in the Treatment of Brain Injury and Neurobehavioral Disorders, 2017
The physical, logistical, and technical aspects of a hospital-based horticultural therapy program are typically carried out by a core horticultural staff, which includes physical, occupational, recreational, and horticultural therapy professionals. However, as previously discussed, the horticultural therapy program should be part of a holistic model, and therefore staff from all other disciplines in the hospital (behavioral therapy, nursing, pastoral care, rehabilitation psychology, etc.) should be actively involved in this therapeutic program. Staff from these various disciplines can provide informal individual and small-group therapeutic services as part of the horticultural therapy activity. The horticultural therapy staff should create a naturalistic, nonthreatening, and relaxed environment to promote positive, nonconfrontational interactions between patients and staff and to increase potential for patient participation in skills acquisition.
Horticultural Therapy: Inadequately Resourced Despite Efficacious Rehabilitative Outcomes
Published in Journal of Legal Medicine, 2020
Matthew DeSanto, Maleck Saleh, Robert Bitonte
Horticultural therapy as defined by the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) states: horticultural therapy as a process of utilizing plants and horticultural activities to improve social, educational, psychological, and physical adjustments of persons, thus improving their body, mind and spirit. Usage of this category of healing dates back to 2000 BC Mesopotamians; they combined therapeutic and horticultural activities. They employed plants and gardening activities to calm the senses by combining beauty, fragrance, and nature. Modernized usages apply these principles in a therapeutic modality towards various debilitating neuropsychological conditions. Published results have shown clinical improvement in the areas of dementia, anxiety disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and other dehabiliting conditions. Evidence shows this form of therapy provides therapeutic benefits to patients of varying diagnoses, yet is seemingly underutilized. In our personal conduct of research, we analyzed the utilization of horticultural therapy in large medical institutions across the entire state of Ohio, and some portions of Pennsylvania. Numerically, the vast majority of responding medical institutions surveyed in our study to date do not offer horticultural based therapeutic programs. Of those responding, they cited lack of financial remuneration, adequate resources, and occasionally lack of qualified personnel for not offering this habilitative service. Yet, all of these respondents expressed interest in this rehabilitative and habilitative resource if adequate financial remuneration and resources were available.
Uncovering the Value and Meaning of a Horticulture Therapy Program for Clients at a Long-Term Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Facility
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2018
Joseph Cipriani, Jenna Georgia, Megan McChesney, Jaclyn Swanson, Janelle Zigon, Megan Stabler
Horticulture, commonly referred to as gardening, has been used therapeutically with individuals diagnosed with various disabling conditions, such as mental illness, cerebral palsy dementia, and physical disabilities. Horticultural therapy (HT) is defined as “ … a formal practice that uses plants, horticultural activities, and the garden landscape to promote well-being for its participants. HT is goal oriented with defined outcomes and assessment procedures” (Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association, 2017, “About Horticultural Therapy and Therapeutic Horticulture,” para. 1). Certain features of HT, such as client evaluations and goal setting, are characteristic of intervention planning in healthcare, including occupational therapy practice. Although the most prominent practitioner of HT is a horticultural therapist, other professionally credentialed practitioners are recognized as using horticulture as a therapeutic tool in their practice (American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA), 2015).
Increased activity in the right prefrontal cortex measured using near-infrared spectroscopy during a flower arrangement task
Published in International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2018
Yuka Morita, Fumio Ebara, Yoshimitsu Morita, Etsuo Horikawa
The multi-faceted relationships between plants and humans have played integral roles in the development of civilisation, affecting the shape and understanding of anthropology, ethnobotany, geography, art, environmental sciences and social sciences, including psychology and sociology. The psychological, physiological and social responses of people to plants have been used for decades as rehabilitative and therapeutic tools in individuals and communities; yet, horticultural therapy research has only become a widespread topic in the scientific community over the last 10–15 years. Horticultural therapy can be performed at home, in public or private gardens, in green spaces or in plant cultivation structures attached to hospitals, rehabilitation clinics and hospices. Thus, this therapeutic modality has great flexibility and can be used as a preventive or adjuvant therapy in patients (Ferrini, 2003).