Horticultural therapy
Save the date: 2010 Therapeutic Garden Design Team Workshop
This workshop, on March 22 or October 4, will study and implement therapeutic garden characteristics, design elements, roles of the design team, facility team composition, therapeutic activities, garden care, and evaluation to support activity programs and rehabilitation therapies. See the details and registration form.
What is horticultural therapy?
Horticultural therapy is a time-tested practice of using plants and gardening tasks to support the recovery of patients of all ages. Research shows that gardens actually improve clinical outcomes, often helping patients to leave the hospital faster, take less pain medication, and suffer fewer complications.
Gardening also puts patients in a caregiver role, boosting their self-confidence and sense of purpose with experience in problem-solving, work adjustment, social interaction and communication. And of course, a tranquil garden setting is a boon not just to patients but to their families and visitors, and to hospital staff.
A national leader
Legacy Health is a leader in horticultural therapy, with award-winning gardens, a Horticultural Therapy Certificate program, and workshops on Children in the Garden, Gardens in Senior Living, etc.
Legacy's nationally-renowned gardens and horticultural therapy program are directed by Teresia Hazen, MED, HTR, QMHP, and award-winning horticultural therapist, who speaks on the topic both nationally and internationally. Read more about Teresia Hazen.
Horticultural Therapy Certificate Program
Legacy is the only U.S. healthcare organization to offer a 150-hour horticultural therapy certificate program to prepare horticultural therapists for:
- nursing homes
- assisted living
- residential care
- day care
- recreation programs
- vocational horticulture programs
- other health and human service settings
For more information on the Certificate Program or horticultural therapy, please contact Teresia Hazen at 503-413-6507 or thazen@lhs.org.
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