Christian family service centre (CFSC) is committed to the support and promotion of the family between the functions of Hong Kong's social welfare agency, since its inception in 1954, has been providing different types of services for residents in Kowloon East. The changes and needs of the community for more than 50 years, and will continue to update its existing services and develop new directions of work.
So far, this has developed into a diversified social services agencies, covers a number of service areas, including: comprehensive family support services, comprehensive elder care, comprehensive rehabilitation services, health services, child care and preschool services, integrated children and youth services, community development services, clinical psychological services, employees ' services and development of new projects.
Horticultural therapy is a complementary treatment methods, the oldest documents dating back to ancient Egypt times, when physicians believe that garden environment can bring to patients even slow mental and physical effects. Since the beginning of the 1950 's-present, United States, and Canada is now widely used horticultural therapy and even has developed a complete horticultural therapist certification system. Since decades, horticultural therapy is widely used on different objects, such as mental illness, brain disease, mental retardation, physical disorders, substance abuse, social behavior, body. In addition, the horticultural treatment also applies to the physical and mental health of children, adults and the elderly. The idea is based on an original "Kiss of life", the longing for nature experiences, as well as horticultural therapy brings ease and leisure.
At present, the Kowloon and New Territories gradually develop farmland leased for public planting activities, such as Tsuen Wan, Tai Po, Fanling, Hok, and Tung Chung. But they are too far away from the urban areas, people who benefited from these facilities will need to travel long distances. But these agricultural land not dedicated to the use of horticultural therapy. Although some social service agencies have set up horticultural therapy garden in residential homes or service centres, but most not for public use. The understanding of the current situation, induces limitations of horticultural therapy in Hong Kong include: lack of horticultural therapy garden for use by the general public, lack of places for horticultural therapy; lack of horticultural therapy used as training sites; lack of horticultural therapy professionals able to provide services.
In view of the current mass of horticultural therapy in Hong Kong does not have too much knowledge, or just a rather vague concept, combined with a lack of venues to develop horticulture therapy at the right time, the obstacles will focus on places and people. In view of this, the Christian family service centre after an in-depth understanding and studying its feasibility in Hong Kong, launched in 2010 in the "spiritual oasis" plan, hoping to widely and effectively promote horticultural therapy and provides horticultural therapy, the first implementation and training venues in Hong Kong so that more service users to benefit from.
"Spiritual oasis" people can have a quiet joy as dancing at the OASIS. Christian family service centre hope into the heart of per capita arable land in oases in the natural environment in the heart of updated and inspired through this oasis, making life more harmonious, more fulfilling, more satisfying.
Concept In the treatment of disease, we have always been the mainstream of the health care system, primarily by doctors and professionals related to the diagnosis, through medication and other treatments against the disease. Popular treatment in recent years, the medical profession, aimed at improving the patient's psychological state, improve their quality of life, promoting physical and mental health. Adjuvant treatment including music therapy, art therapy, horticultural therapy is one of them. Horticultural therapy is people-oriented, to serve the needs and capacity of objects in mind focus, focusing on participatory processes. Horticultural therapist will first assess the capacity and needs of clients. According to individual circumstances, to set a target to design appropriate gardening activities, to achieve a therapeutic effect. Horticultural therapy is the most unique place, which involved media is a plant. Plant life, has its life cycle, to grow up in client care. On completion of the treatment team, clients can continue to care for the growing plants, share a vegetative condition, let gardening treatment can continue.
The uniqueness of the Christian family service centre opinion, horticultural therapy be of enormous help to its clients, particularly for early-stage Alzheimer's patients and patients with depression. However, in Hong Kong develop horticulture therapy is still under heavy restrictions, venues and professionals are two very important issues. Therefore, organizers in three ideas to design and build the "spiritual oasis", they include 1) provides horticultural therapy garden for use by the general public, 2) provide training grounds for training horticultural therapy professionals, 3) offering horticultural therapy services for those in need
Soul OASIS facilities Soul OASIS Unlike ordinary parks, in addition to kinds of ornamental plants, and also specially arranged planting herbs and plants and vegetables, rich texture. In addition, users also be gardening and retreats here. Here can be divided into two large areas, and ad hoc barrier-free access, the disabled in wheelchairs, respectively in these two areas, "growing areas of activity" and "experience".
Activity-growing areas Mind OASIS has elevated planters, flower pots and other planting container to horticultural therapy activities. Elevated beds can be of different heights allow elderly and wheelchair please don't trouble to stoop or gardening activities, thereby encouraging their participation in the process of horticultural therapy garden set high in flower beds, with a different shape, and can be moved, workers may be due to dust, when activities and weather conditions, the deployment place.
Experience zone We are with the eyes (Visual) to appreciate the nature of flowers and grass. But here, walking along the sensory trail, you will feel the different senses (Visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory) stimuli. Make full use of the five senses interact with plants, you will have a deeper experience. Sense for you how to appreciate the beauty of nature to bring new interpretations.
Vision-the four seasons, flowers, different kinds of plants Tactile-texture-arm of exotic plants, sculptured lines Smell-herbs, flowers Taste – lettuce, tomato Hearing-water, wind Visual: Visual properties are color, contrast, brightness, shape, and form. Colors can be used to increase the sense of taste and space of the garden, also can create styles. Color contrast, harmony, the variables of temperature and intensity can be played. The single color of the flower is not a plant, the leaves and bark are also important. In addition, not all of the plant's leaves are green, there is the color of the leaves of plants, such as Coleus blumei, Cosmos, Evergreen, etc.
From 2010-2013, "spiritual oasis" in three years for the 971 provides horticultural therapy services, 892 people suffering from Alzheimer's or symptoms of depression. Horticultural therapy services earlier than the United States and Canada and Taiwan and popular for many years, but local experience in Hong Kong is not much. In view of this, the Christian family service centre in Hong Kong in the past three years implementation of the experience accumulated by the horticultural therapy services gathered into a book, edited the first substantive work for the horticultural therapy manual.
Horticultural therapy practice horticultural therapy operations manual is a practical guide, from theory to practice takes the reader mastering the basic essence of horticultural therapy in terms of both social service workers (social workers), reference books, and other lay open the road to horticultural therapy is the best guide.
Christian Family Service Centre organized a total of 13 issues during the 2010 to 2013 "horticultural therapy certificate of practice", the horticultural therapy theory of practice manual is the cumulative course in Taiwan and Hong Kong essence of lecturers, become a must-read Chapter to get started with the horticulture therapy introduction. Which contains the meaning of gardening on the length of treatment, the benefits of gardening, horticultural therapy treatment elements, as well as the Taiwan experiences of implementation. Due to the course of lectures will focus on horticultural therapy for Alzheimer's and depression and therefore, manual application of the theoretical part of the main horticultural therapy explained how to apply to the two classes of objects.
Practice activities in text design and 50 active design is a reference to participants of the internship experience, combining local experience of front-line employees, provides horticultural therapy activities planned for the reader's reference template. Activities is divided into hand, season, growing experience series, suitable for horticultural therapy held in outdoor or indoor activities, readers may also be the need to inject new elements and features of the object, will benefit further
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