Floratherapy as a Creative Arts Intervention With Women in a Retirement Home

Floratherapy as a Creative Arts Intervention With Women in a Retirement Home

Floratherapy is a creative arts technique involving the manipulation and use of flowers. It can be used to facilitate clients' awareness into inner issues, allowing them to view their life situations through a nonthreatening and often nonverbal means. This article presents one portion of a qual...

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Published in:Journal of creativity in mental health Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 334 - 342
Main Authors: Perryman, Kristi L., Keller, Elizabeth A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01-01-2009
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Subjects:
counseling
Creative Activities
creative arts
creativity
Females
floratherapy
group work
Intervention
Mental Health
Metacognition
Older Adults
Plants (Botany)
Qualitative Research
Retirement
retirement home
Therapy
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Summary:Floratherapy is a creative arts technique involving the manipulation and use of flowers. It can be used to facilitate clients' awareness into inner issues, allowing them to view their life situations through a nonthreatening and often nonverbal means. This article presents one portion of a qualitative research project designed to explore the experiences of 6 women in a retirement home who participated in floratherapy group sessions. The intervention is fully explained and the lived experience of 1 woman from the study is relayed in detail.
ISSN:1540-1383
1540-1391
DOI:10.1080/15401380903372653