About Horticultural Therapy
Horticultural Therapy (HT) is a formal practice that uses plants, horticultural activities and the garden landscape to promote well-being for its participants. HT is goal orientated with defined outcomes and assessment procedures. HT sessions are administered by professionally trained horticultural therapists.
Therapeutic Horticulture (TH) is the purposeful use of plants and plant-related activities to promote health and wellness for an individual or group. Goals and defined outcomes for individual participants are not necessarily considered nor clinically documented.
Therapeutic Horticulture (TH) is the purposeful use of plants and plant-related activities to promote health and wellness for an individual or group. Goals and defined outcomes for individual participants are not necessarily considered nor clinically documented.
Benefits
Some of the benefits of HT and TH include:
- Reduces social isolation: activities stimulate communication, and satisfy needs to be nurturing, caring and creative.
- Reduces stress: provides relaxation through sensory stimulation in a non-threatening environment
- Improves self-esteem: reactivates lifetime skills, creates a sense of purpose, personal growth and meaning.
- Promotes mobility: improves muscle movement, motor skills, balance and coordination.
