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Animals in Animal-Assisted Services: Are They Volunteers or Professionals?
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
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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
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Unconventional Animal Species Participation in Animal-Assisted Interventions and Methods for Measuring Their Experienced Stress. [PDF]
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.
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Supplemental Material for Animal-assisted and robotic animal-assisted interventions within dementia care: A systematic ...
Emily Shoesmith (9421829) +2 more
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Inside the Interaction: Contact With Familiar Humans Modulates Heart Rate Variability in Horses
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
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Development of Desirable Behaviors in Dog-Assisted Interventions
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
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Effect of Animal Assisted Interventions on Inmates: A Systematic Review
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
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Many meta-analyses and systematic reviews have tried to assess the efficacy of animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), reaching inconsistent conclusions.
Javier López-Cepero
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Information processing in computer-assisted interventions: 4th international conference, 2013 [PDF]
Information processing in computer-assisted interventions: 4th international conference ...
Barratt, Dean +11 more
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French handlers’ perspectives on Animal-Assisted Interventions
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
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