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. 2017 Nov 1;14(4):87-89.
doi: 10.1192/s2056474000002087. eCollection 2017 Nov.

Horticultural therapy in a psychiatric in-patient setting

Miguel de Seixas  1 , David Williamson  2 , Gemma Barker  2 , Ruth Vickerstaff  3
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Horticultural therapy in a psychiatric in-patient setting

Miguel de Seixas et al. BJPsych Int. .

Abstract

In-patient mental health services have a duty to constantly seek to improve patient experience and to assist in the development of new skills that can aid recovery. Horticultural therapy can be implemented in an economic, social and environmentally sustainable way to achieve those goals.

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