Horticulture Therapy

DEFINITION:

Gardening or horticulture is the activity tending and cultivating a garden especially as a pastime. In the other words, gardening is the job or activity of working in a garden, growing and taking care of plants, and keeping it attractive. Retrieved from dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/English/gardening. Horticultural therapy is a relatively new discipline combining horticulture and rehabilitation disciplines. It employs plants and gardening activities in therapeutic and rehabilitation activities to improve human wellbeing. Gardening is a very good therapeutic activity for someone who have disabled and mentally ill especially depression because it can be effective for healing, restoring and improving health and wellbeing in the

Feeling of sadness, fearfulness, emptiness or hopeless.

2. Angry outbursts, irritability or frustration, even over small matters.

3. Loss of interest or pleasure in most or all normal activities, such as sex, hobbies or sports.

4. Sleep disturbance, including insomnia or sleeping too much.

5. Tiredness and lack of energy, even so small tasks take extra effort.

6. Changes in appetite-often reduced appetite and weight loss, but increased cravings for food and weight gain in some people.

7. Anxiety, agitation restlessness.

8. Slowed thinking, speaking or body movements.

9. Feelings of worthlessness or guilt, fixating on past failures or blaming yourself for things that are not your responsibility.

10. Troubling thinking, concentrating, making decision and remembering things.

11. Frequent or recurrent thought of death, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts or suicide.

12. Unexplained physical problems, such as back pain or headache.

AIM:

Short term aims

Put some small rocks inside the pot to cover the hole below the pot. This will prevent water loss. When patient grab the small rocks, the movement involves is MP flexion and PIP flexion. When lifting the small rocks to put into the pot, the movement is flexion and extension of elbow and forearm joint. When put off the rocks, movement involve is extension of MP and PIP joint.

2. Put the soil until ¾ of the pot When scooping the soil, movements involve are supination and pronation of elbow and forearm joint. To put the soil in the pot, movement involve is internal and external rotation of shoulder.

3. Make some small hole to put the sapling. To make small holes, movement involves are flexion and extension of elbow and forearm joint. Next, PIP extension.

4. Insert the sapling into the hole and bury the hole loosely. To pinch the sapling, movement involve is opposition of thumb and point finger. To bury the hole, the movements involve are flexion and extension of PIP and MP joint.

5. Water the pot with some water When watering plant, the movement involve are flexion of forearm and elbow joint and abduction of