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Animals in Animal-Assisted Services: Are They Volunteers or Professionals?

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
With the increasingly common practice of Animal-Assisted Services (AAS), whether in therapy, coaching, education, or volunteering programs, the concern over animal welfare has also risen. However, no standards have yet been established for good practices
Brigitte Wijnen, Pim Martens
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Dog-Assisted Therapy in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: A Study Protocol for a Pilot Controlled Trial

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Background: Eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance that alters food intake and it is often accompanied by anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or reduced functional capacity and quality of life.
Ana Myriam Lavín-Pérez   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unconventional Animal Species Participation in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Methods for Measuring Their Experienced Stress. [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals (Basel)
The participation of animals during complementary therapy for humans is a developing area. Dogs and horses are the most frequent partner species in animal-assisted services, but several unconventional species have also been involved, although there is a ...
Suba-Bokodi É, Nagy I, Molnár M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Supplemental Material - Animal-assisted and robotic animal-assisted interventions within dementia care: A systematic review

open access: yes, 2023
Supplemental Material for Animal-assisted and robotic animal-assisted interventions within dementia care: A systematic ...
Emily Shoesmith (9421829)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Inside the Interaction: Contact With Familiar Humans Modulates Heart Rate Variability in Horses

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
A human–animal relationship can be developed through subsequent interactions, affected by the positive or negative emotional valence of the proceeding one.
Chiara Scopa   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Desirable Behaviors in Dog-Assisted Interventions

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Dog-assisted interventions (DAI) are those that include specially trained dogs in human health services. Often, the training methods employed to train animals for DAI are transmitted between trainers, so the latest scientific research on dog learning and
Félix Acebes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Animal Assisted Interventions on Inmates: A Systematic Review

open access: yesPsikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2022
This study aims to examine animal-assisted interventions used in penitentiary institutions and to examine the effects of these interventions on prisoners.
Zehra Su Topbaş, Nuray Şimşek
doaj   +1 more source

Current Status of Animal-Assisted Interventions in Scientific Literature: A Critical Comment on Their Internal Validity

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Many meta-analyses and systematic reviews have tried to assess the efficacy of animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), reaching inconsistent conclusions.
Javier López-Cepero
doaj   +1 more source

Information processing in computer-assisted interventions: 4th international conference, 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Information processing in computer-assisted interventions: 4th international conference ...
Barratt, Dean   +11 more
core   +1 more source

French handlers’ perspectives on Animal-Assisted Interventions

open access: yesComplementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2021
Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAI) are well implemented in human healthcare, in France as elsewhere; yet there are still difficulties in characterizing these practices and misconceptions about their mechanisms - little is known about the French practice of AAI and about the human-animal team.This study aims to characterize AAI by exploring their ...
Mignot, Alice   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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