We re not going to cure our patients malady, but we can, perhaps, rehabilitate the person. It means to restore to customary activity by education and therapy. I think we need to be concerned with the individual first, and the disability second. The objectives of rehabilitation are to improve the physical, mental, social, and vocational aptitudes and attitudes so that a person can live happily and productively. There may not be seen a beginning or an end and the results may be direct or indirect.
Total rehabilitation means to live and function again.
Dr. Karl Menninger said, about the activity of therapists people who teach the art of living to persons who may never have quite learned it or, if so, have lost it for a time. The main challenge is to motivate any group of people in any setting and then use these responses to foster, initiate, and promote physical, social, and emotional health. Horticulture used as therapy can be planned to provide specific therapeutic aims. The use of horticulture as an activity for therapy and rehabilitation is unique and works because the medium is living. Plants seem to satisfy some psychological need in humans.