California Horticultural Therapy Network
Catalyzing collaborations to advance the profession of Horticultural Therapy in California
HORTICULTURE AS THERAPY
Program Characteristics
| Program Characteristics | Horticultural Therapy | Therapeutic Horticulture |
A client with a diagnosed treatment need | X | X |
Specific goals or objectives identified that can be measured and evaluated | X | |
Programs found in a wide variety of healthcare, rehabilitative, correctional and residential settings where people have an established treatment plan | X | X |
| Treatment delivered by a horticultural therapist register (HTR) with American Horticultural Therapy Association, having met all its professional standards of training | X | X |
| Facilitated by other professionals with training in the use of horticulture as a therapeutic modality to support program goals | X |
