Horticulture Therapy for special indiviuals

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Horticulture Therapy:

Horticulture therapy is a professionally conducted client-centered treatment modality that utilizes horticulture activities to meet the specific therapeutic or rehabilitative goals of its participants. The focus is to maximize social, cognitive, physical, and psychological functioning to enhance general health and wellness.

Elements of Horticulture Therapy:

Client, goals, therapist, Therapy, and plant

A key element in this model, the trained horticultural therapist has the skills to use plants to facilitate the therapeutic processes.

The client is the person being served usually someone with an identified need for the intervention to improve cognitive, emotional, physical, or social functioning.

Goals are objectives defined by the client and treatment team.

The plant is used for plant-related activities and tasks used to provide therapeutic opportunities to the client.

Programs that offer gardening activities without goals and treatment procedures, while beneficial, are not horticulture therapy.