title: Horticultural therapy: the garden benefits everyone.
abstract: Horticulture therapy (HT) is an applied adjuctive therapy, using plants and gardening materials, to help the client with mental illness to improve social skills, self-esteem, and use of leisure time. HT provides a nonthreatening context for the development of a therapeutic alliance between client and nursing student. HT provides a group experience for the student nurse, allowing the promotion of therapeutic community, assessment of patient status, and management of a therapy session from start to finish via the nursing process.
authors.affiliation: Ellis Hospital School of Nursing, Schenectady, New York 12308, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006783:Hospitals, State; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010944:Plants; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology