Talk:Horticultural therapy

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Untitled[edit]

WHAT IS THE APPROXIMATION OF HOW MANY TIME HAS THIS ACTIVITY OCCURRED? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.100.193 (talk) 23:23, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quality of sources[edit]

This article, especially the "Programs" section does not cite many sources. It all seems a bit biased to me. Lena08041993 (talk) 09:36, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Promotional Information in credentials section[edit]

Artyplantz and 183.82.19.72, who I am assuming are one and the same, please stop adding promotional information to the Credentials section (which would be the incorrect section even if your content was permitted). Also, without proper citations your added content is unverifiable. If you'd like to find a neutral way to add developments to the therapy, please discuss here.

DeniedClub ^{❯❯❯ talk?} 09:15, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Evaluation of article: What are the article's strengths?[edit]

This article overall is very well written and organized. The thing that stood out to me the most as a strength of the article would be the organization and categorization of the information over horticultural therapy, that made for an easy to read and understand informational article. Tmb211 (talk) 18:29, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Very AHTA-centric[edit]

"How to become a horitcultural therapist" section is just straight up AHTA criteria, and oftentimes throughout AHTA are the only people referred to. Undoubtedly they are experts on Horticultural Therapy, however what other organisations if any may oversee/implement it outside of AHTA (especially outside of the US, for instance, in the UK, Canada, Australia, etc.), or is horticultural therapy unique to the US/AHTA?

This page is about horticultural therapy, not AHTA, so making it less AHTA-centric may be ideal (and the "how to become a horticultural therapist" section may be better to be heavily reworded or removed, wikipedia is not an instruction manual or AHTA training page!) 2A01:388:505:150:0:0:1:37 (talk) 22:07, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the section. It looks like this article has been primarily put together by students for assignments, so that explains part of the poor organization of the article. The whole thing really needs a rework. KoA (talk) 22:53, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Gardening[edit]

I removed the following:

Extended content

An extensive systematic review with [[meta-analysis]] examined the effectiveness of horticultural therapy.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Soga | first1 = M. | last2 = Gaston | first2 = K.J. | last3 = Yamaurac | first3 = Y. | year = 2017 | title = Gardening is beneficial for health: A meta-analysis | journal = Preventive Medicine Reports | volume = 5 | pages = 92–99 | doi = 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.11.007 | pmid = 27981022 | pmc = 5153451 }}</ref> A significant positive association with gardening was observed for a wide range of health outcomes, such as reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms, stress, mood disturbance, and BMI, as well as increases in quality of life, sense of community, physical activity levels, and cognitive function.

It is a review of studies about gardening in general; not specifically about Horticultural Therapy. So to present it as evidence of HTs efficacy is misleading at best. Polygnotus (talk) 07:40, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin Rush[edit]

The article says:

The first modern documentation of horticulture being used as a treatment for mental health purposes was in the 1800s. Dr. Benjamin Rush was the first to suggest that field labor in a farm setting helped attain positive outcomes for clients with mental illness.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rush|first=Benjamin|date=1830|title=Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind, 4th ed.|doi=10.1037/11843-000}}</ref> This discovery lead many hospitals in the western world to begin using horticulture as a means to start therapeutically treating patients with mental health and developmental disabilities.

It seems incredibly unlikely that he was the first one to link mental illnesses and being outside/gardening/field labor. The source is Benjamin himself. He also believed in extreme purging and bleeding (depletion therapy) which is a terrible idea...

I don't want to read a 378 page book to discover if he indeed claimed that he was the first person ever to come up with this idea but I searched through the OCR-ed version and I could find no such claim. https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-66551140R-bk Polygnotus (talk) 07:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]