Horticulture Therapy

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• Chapter 8

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Children

• Represent a focal point for the application of
  societys resources to ensure their healthy
  growth and development

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Childrens benefits

• Work cooperatively
• Grow plants
• Sense of mastery
• Heightened self-esteem
• Healthy mgt of behavior, feelings, and
  relationships

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Children

• 15 suffer emotional and behavioral problems
  (1978)

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Children

• 14 million in poverty (1989)
• 40-50 experience divorce
• 1 million abuse cases per year

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Children

• Childhood depression
• Anxiety disorder
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Oppositional defiant disorder

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Children

• Continuity Progression
• Dynamism interaction
• Variation
• Normative Sequence
• Epigenesis
• Optimal Tendency

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Children

• Biological forces
• Psychosocial Forces
• Cultural Forces

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Children

• Interpersonal relations
• Self-image and self-esteem
• Affective management

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Children

• Physical Growth
• Cognitive Development
• a. language
• b. social
• c. emotional

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Lab Practicum

• A. Format, Time, Location, Size, Materials
• B. Definition
• C. Goals
• D. Methodology
• E. Precautions

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Conclusion

• Goals
• Format
• Results