Paisagismo na unidade de internação psiquiatrica Paulo Guedes - HUSM/UFSM: um olhar da educação ambiental

Abstract

In order to increase human comfort, physical and mental well-being of the patients admitted to the University Hospital of Santa Maria / Psychiatric Unit Paulo Guedes, this work has among its objectives to contribute to the quality of life of those by promoting improvements of the aesthetic and environmental conditions of the medium in which they are inserted through the landscape, encouraging contact with the plants and nature experience through environmental education workshops, using gardening as therapy during the restoration process of the internal garden of the unity. It is understood, thus, that the workshops of environmental education and the use of gardening as therapy are justified by its ability to engage and provide the internal an opportunity to minimize the effects of isolation through the activities carried out in the garden. In this sense, it was established a small nursery of ornamental and medicinal plants in UIPPG yard to be distributed among the patients at the time of their discharge and also by other units of the University Hospital of Santa Maria. Simultaneously to these practices were held workshops for the revitalization of the kitchen garden, with a view to production of organic vegetables to add to the feeding of inmates.