Combine Your Love of Horticulture with Your Drive to Help Others
- Understand how you can use gardening to help people with a range of problems including age-related issues, physical disability, loneliness, mental disorders and social problems.
- Learn the therapeutic principles and horticultural knowledge to improving individual’s mental and physical health.
- Learn to apply variety of horticultural therapy solutions appropriate to people with restricted motor skills and more
Lesson Structure
There are 9 lessons in this course:
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Scope and Nature of Horticultural Therapy
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Understanding Disabilities and Communicating with people with disabilities
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Communication, Teaching and Counselling Skills
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Risk Management -Hygiene for vulnerable people, What extra risks are to be considered in a therapy situation.... chemical, physical
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Accessibility and Activities for people with Mobility issues (eg. wheelchairs, on crutches,
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Enabling the Disabled -with restricted motor skills
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Producing Things –Vegetables, Propagation, Fruit, Herbs
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Growing in Containers -Vertical gardens, pots, Hydroponics
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Creating a Therapeutic Garden
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Generating Income
HOW CAN THIS COURSE BENEFIT YOU?
Interest in horticultural therapy is increasing at a remarkably fast rate. The research that has been done over the past few years has shown that there are definite and measurable benefits.
The benefits of horticulture
therapy can be seen in different populations from those rehabilitating
from surgery, to prison inmates, to people with mental health disorders.
Horticulture therapy provides a means of helping people develop social
skills, improve physical mobility, and regain confidence. It is slowly
but surely becoming more widely recognised as an efficacious form of
therapy.
This course will be of particular interest to people wishing to get
involved in either the practical side of therapeutic garden design or in
delivering therapy programs. It is suited to people working in:
- Horticulture therapy
- Landscape gardening
- Garden design
- Psychotherapy & counselling
- Caring roles
- Teachers
Any Questions?
Our horticultural therapy tutors are happy to answer any questions about the course, so please do ask.
