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French handlers’ perspectives on Animal-Assisted Interventions

Complementary 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, de Luca, Karelle, Leboucher, Gérard, Servais, Véronique   +3 more
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Children’s Relationships with a Non-Vertebrate Animal: The Case of a Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica) at School

Animals, 2023
Employing living animals in educational settings is popular and may assist learning. Human-animal relationships are considered fundamental for the effects of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) on successful learning.
Katharina Hirschenhauser, Lisa Brodesser
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Exploring the Relationship between Persons with Hearing Loss/Deafness and Their Hearing Dogs

Animals
The reported positive outcomes of animal-assisted services have led to an emerging interest in many different aspects of human–animal interactions. The influence of an assistance animal is thought to encompass several psychosocial domains in the life of ...
Carlie J. Driscoll, Jessica Hill, Anna Torre, Nancy Pachana   +3 more
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Animal-assisted intervention in the ICU: a tool for humanization [PDF]

Critical Care, 2018
As critical care medicine is increasingly successful in preventing death, the field is more focused on optimizing patients’ survivorship experience. Through creating humanized ICU environments and implementing non-pharmacologic interventions, patients no longer must wait for hospital discharge before they begin to live again.
Megan M. Hosey, Janice Jaskulski, Stephen T. Wegener, Linda L. Chlan, Dale M. Needham   +4 more
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An overview of the literature on assistance dogs using text mining and topic analysis

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
It is said that dogs are human's best friend. On occasion, dogs can be raised and trained to provide additional specific benefits to humans suffering from a range of physical or mental conditions, working as assistance dogs.
Emma Bassan, Alberto Mair, Marta De Santis, Massimo Bugianelli, Enrico Loretti, Alessio Capecci, Franco Mutinelli, Laura Contalbrigo   +7 more
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Unleashing compassionate care: canine-assisted intervention as a promising harm reduction approach to prisonization in Canada and its relevance to forensic psychiatry

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
In recent years, there has been a global advancement in the offering of canine-assisted interventions (CAI) in prisons. However, these programs have focused primarily on the benefits to the dogs involved and not on the impact on the participants.
Maryellen Gibson, Colleen Anne Dell, Darlene Chalmers, Grace Rath, Mansfield Mela   +4 more
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How to Measure Human-Dog Interaction in Dog Assisted Interventions? A Scoping Review

Animals
Human-dog interaction is the working tool through which the therapeutic, educational and recreational goals of dog-assisted interventions (DAIs) are achieved.
Marta De Santis, Lorena Filugelli, Alberto Mair, Simona Normando, Franco Mutinelli, Laura Contalbrigo   +5 more
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Animal assisted interventions in practice: mapping Italian providers

Veterinaria Italiana, 2019
Animal assisted interventions (AAI) have become increasingly popular in Western countries during the last fifty years, attracting a lot of attention both from the general public and the scientific community.
Marta De Santis, Laura Contalbrigo, Martina Simonato, Mirko Ruzza, Marica Toson, Luca Farina   +5 more
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Current Standards and Practices Within the Therapy Dog Industry: Results of a Representative Survey of United States Therapy Dog Organizations

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Organizations that deliver animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), as well as those that train, evaluate, and register therapy dogs, have proliferated in recent decades in the United States (U.S.).
James A. Serpell, Katherine A. Kruger, Lisa M. Freeman, James A. Griffin, Zenithson Y. Ng   +4 more
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Animal-Assisted Intervention and Dementia: A Systematic Review [PDF]

Clinical Nursing Research, 2018
This review discusses the relationship between animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). A systematic search was conducted within CINAHL, Web of Science CAB Abstracts, PubMed, Abstracts in Social Gerontology, Google Scholar, and PsycINFO for primary research articles.
Michelle L. Yakimicki, Nancy E. Edwards, Elizabeth Richards, Alan M. Beck   +3 more
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