Intervention Study Of Horticultural Therapy Group Activities In Alleviating Anxiety And Depression Of Empty Nesters

With the overall rise of social and economic level,the aging trend of China's population is becoming more and more obvious.The empty-nesters,a special social group,are rising sharply.A series of physical and mental problems faced by empty-nesters have become the focus of social attention.As an extension of the concept of empty-nesters,psychological empty-nesters represent the loneliness of a larger group.Through literature review,the author learned that psychological empty-nesters,due to their lack of affection care and emotional support,have been in a state of sadness,anxiety,depression,self-denial and other negative emotional states and under emotional pressure for a long time.In addition,the projects of "warm heart square" and "friendly neighborhood square",that the author came into contact with in the social work professional internship site during the postgraduate period are mainly committed to providing professional services for registered empty-nesters,the elderly,special care and the disabled in x community.In the process of project service,the author found that there were a large number of empty-nesters in community X,Y1 and Y2 nursing institutions,who lacked family care and emotional support for a long time,and had a strong sense of spiritual loneliness,which was easy to breed anxiety and depression.During my internship in another site of Z social work service center,I had worked in a horticultural treatment group for empty-nesters.Therefore,I came up with the idea of developing a horticultural treatment group for psychological empty-nesters in community X.In this study,after the comprehensive assessment of psychological empty-nesters,the intervention of horticultural therapy group activities was carried out systematically to explore the effect of the intervention of horticultural therapy group activities on alleviating anxiety and depression of psychological empty-nesters.Among them,11 members of the intervention group participated in horticultural therapy activities,which were 8 times in total.It was expected that horticultural therapy activities would have a positive effect on alleviating anxiety and depression of psychological empty-nesters.In this study,tools such as SDS scale,SAS scale and horticultural treatment activity satisfaction questionnaire were used for psychological empty-nesters to compare the measurement data before and after the psychological empty-nesters participated in the activity,and the analysis showed that the horticultural treatment activity significantly improved the physiological,emotional and social interaction of psychological empty-nesters.In addition,the author also through horticultural therapy group activities in the process of interview data analysis of typical cases and further tracking observation record events horticultural therapy group activities applied to psychological effect and influence of empty nesters,and sums up the part of the social work professional development,put forward reference for subsequent research,better explore the applicability of the horticultural therapy group activities and applicability.