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Choice Reviews Online, 2011
This comprehensive overview of the many types of animal-assisted therapy provides the perfect reference for students, general readers, pet owners, animal care specialists, psychologists, occupational and physical therapists, and mental health professionals.
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This comprehensive overview of the many types of animal-assisted therapy provides the perfect reference for students, general readers, pet owners, animal care specialists, psychologists, occupational and physical therapists, and mental health professionals.
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Animal-Assisted Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease
Seminars in Integrative Medicine, 2004It has become clear that psychosocial factors play an integral role in health, particularly in influencing the progression and severity of disease. Scientists have begun to identify these factors in order to uncover methods to control them and so affect the course of an illness.
Andrew I. Wolff, William H. Frishman
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Perioperative Nursing and Animal‐Assisted Therapy
AORN Journal, 2000ABSTRACTInteracting with animals has been shown to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol, decrease anxiety, and improve a person's sense of well being. Animal‐assisted therapy (AAT) can be incorporated into the care of perioperative patients. Some of the goals that can be met by using trained and certified therapy animals are reducing stress ...
J, Miller, L, Ingram
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Animal-assisted therapy for inpatient adults
Nursing, 2017AbstractBackground. Research has long supported the use of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) in healthcare for diverse patient populations. AAT is a therapeutic tool to help restore balance to a person's life using trained animals.
Angela, Phung +6 more
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2019
Animal assisted therapy is an alternative treatment method based on human-animal interaction, used as complementary to the main therapy in order to cure and enhance the living conditions in individuals affected by chronic diseases or mental disorders. Animal assisted therapy is known to be used as a complementary therapy in many illnesses and disorders
ÇAKICI, Arzu, KÖK, Mehmet
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Animal assisted therapy is an alternative treatment method based on human-animal interaction, used as complementary to the main therapy in order to cure and enhance the living conditions in individuals affected by chronic diseases or mental disorders. Animal assisted therapy is known to be used as a complementary therapy in many illnesses and disorders
ÇAKICI, Arzu, KÖK, Mehmet
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The Science Behind Animal-Assisted Therapy
Current Pain and Headache Reports, 2013Animal-assisted therapy is a complementary medicine intervention, typically utilizing dogs trained to be obedient, calm, and comforting. Several studies have reported significant pain relief after participating in therapy dog visits. Objective reports of reduced pain and pain-related symptoms are supported by studies measuring decreased catecholamines ...
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The Moral Basis of Animal-Assisted Therapy
Society & Animals, 2006AbstractIs nonhuman animal-assisted therapy (AAT) a form of exploitation? After exploring possible moral vindications of AAT and after establishing a distinction between "use" and "exploitation," the essay distinguishes between forms of animal-assisted therapy that are morally unobjectionable and those modes of it that ought to be abolished.
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