An evaluation of horticultural therapy in brain injury rehabilitation /
Horticultural therapy has been shown to be a viable prevocational training program for individuals with traumatic brain injuries. This study examined individuals in a horticultural therapy training program to ascertain whether predictive measures could be found to help foretell clients' succes...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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2000.
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| Summary: | Horticultural therapy has been shown to be a viable prevocational training program for individuals with traumatic brain injuries. This study examined individuals in a horticultural therapy training program to ascertain whether predictive measures could be found to help foretell clients' success; to look at the professional outcomes of brain injury rehabilitation; and to critique the assessment language used in recording individual progress. Results of the study indicated that predictive measures such as premorbid history, acute and post acute hospitalization/rehabilitation lengths could help to predict successful outcomes in prevocational training programs. Individuals in the horticultural therapy program had among the highest functional levels of the prevocational training programs observed at one Texas brain injury rehabilitation facility. Successful outcome for this type of program was defined as returning the individuals back to school/work with continued employment. A second part of this successful outcome was follow-up monitoring from the treatment facility. Additional results indicated the traumatic brain injury industry needs a concerted effort between the rehabilitation facilities, state vocational rehabilitation departments, and the Brain Injury Association to establish universal outcome standards for programs involved in the rehabilitation process. To date there are no such standards. Assessment tools within these programs need to focus on the difference between subjective and objective language to make facility assessment instruments more concise among the differing staff performing evaluations. Switching from hand-written assessments to computerized assessments can help benefit programs doing horticultural therapy prevocational training. The computerized assessments will allow less time to be spent evaluating an individuals' progress and more time for actual on-line treatment. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Horticulture". |
| Physical Description: | xv, 217 leaves ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-168). |