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Record Nr.

UNINA9910364946003321

Autore

Fournier Angela K

Titolo

Animal-Assisted Intervention : Thinking Empirically / / by Angela K. Fournier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-32972-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 pages)

Disciplina

615.85158

Soggetti

Health psychology

Animal welfare

Psychotherapy

Counseling

Psychology, Applied

Health Psychology

Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics

Psychotherapy and Counseling

Applied Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Human-Animal Interaction Analysis -- Chapter 3: HAI Dose in Animal-Assisted Intervention -- Chapter 4: Animals as Anodyne -- Chapter 5: Animals as Intervention Agents -- Chapter 6: Studying Animal-Assisted Intervention Through Citizen Science -- Chapter 7: Toward Empirical Thinking and Creative Inquiry.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings the animal into the scholarly discussion of animal-assisted therapy and other interventions. Challenging the current reliance on outcome studies, the author offers a new way of thinking empirically about animal-assisted interventions—analysis of human-animal interaction as a critical component. Through empirical demonstrations from laboratory and applied settings, the book encourages practitioners and scholars to undergo a deeper examination of the basic interactions that occur between clients or



patients and therapy animals. Dr. Fournier provides new ideas on measurement, experimentation, and interpretation of human-animal interaction, aimed at identifying the role of the animal in interventions for human health and well-being.