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2017 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach

Therapeutic Gardening and Internet Addiction

Student(s):

Catherine Vachon

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Cory Lane

Partner(s):

  • reSTART Life

Faculty advisor(s):

Kristi Straus, Program of the Environment, University of Washington

I collaborated with reSTART Life to develop a therapeutic gardening program for the adolescents (age 13-18) in their program. The gardening program, which is used as a therapy for the adolescents with technology addiction, involved establishing a vegetable garden on site at the facility, as well as developing and teaching an outdoor environmental curriculum. My research focused on determining if gardening was as an effective therapy for technology addiction, as well as researching how therapeutic gardening programs could be implemented in schools as a preventative measure to reduce incidences of tech addiction in adolescents.