| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 園藝學研究所 === 96 === The principle of horticulture therapy equals to other occupation therapies which is a transformation that gains satisfaction by way of interaction between human and plant. In Europe and the U.S., horticulture therapy has been existed for years, and it applies to various groups and the effect is proven by many researches. In Taiwan, the major benefits of horticulture therapy are elders, children, mental patients and incompetents. Nevertheless, horticulture therapy and related research on considerable number of prisoners and drug addicts in prisons and rehabilitation centers are seldom found.
This research, by the method of retracing the documents and observation, interviews and individual researches, probes the forms of horticulture therapy application and the horticulture therapy practice method, therefore to understand the application potential of horticulture therapy in drug offenders and rehabilitation centers in Taiwan. Meanwhile, the applicable horticulture therapy of technical training and life education for prisoners and drug addicts are tried to be generalized.
After more than twenty weeks horticulture course training, the analysis of questionnaires and interviews found the trainees had not only progressed the knowledge of horticulture skill and life education, but also observable self-efficacy, and essential social status, behavioral controls, self-esteem and self-confidence are improved. Surprisingly, some trainees devote to horticulture job after the term of imprisonment. Apparently, Through the way of horticulture therapy, the society abandoned people are satisfied physically and mentally by technical skills and recreational habits. In the result of that, the trainees’ values are been rectified and some abilities are been cultivated, furthermore, their lives have chance to be reborn through horticulture therapy.
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