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Animal-Assisted Therapy as a Non-Pharmacological Approach in Alzheimer's Disease: A Retrospective Study. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2020
Simple Summary Non-pharmacological approach represents a valid therapeutic option as an alternative or supplement to pharmacological treatments in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Santaniello A, Garzillo S, Amato A, Sansone M, Di Palma A, Di Maggio A, Fioretti A, Menna LF.   +7 more
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Dog Welfare, Well-Being and Behavior: Considerations for Selection, Evaluation and Suitability for Animal-Assisted Therapy. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2020
Simple Summary Benefits for humans participating in animal-assisted therapy (AAT) have been long documented; however, welfare considerations for the animal counterparts are still quite non-specific, often relating to more general concerns associated with
Winkle M, Johnson A, Mills D.
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Determining consistency in the attitudes and actions of providers of animal-assisted services regarding their alignment with standards and ethical practice

Human-Animal Interactions, 2023
The current mixed methods study sought to investigate the actual as well as the perceived practices and alignment with animal-assisted interventions (AAI) ethics and standards of mental health practitioners that partner with an animal in their practice ...
Amy Johnson, Patricia Cameron, Melissa Trevathan-Minnis   +2 more
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Methodological Development of the Assessment Procedure and of the Course Design «Adaptive Swimming with Dolphins». The Impact on Children with ASD.

Аутизм и нарушение развития, 2021
Nowadays dolphin-assisted therapy is a method of animal-assisted therapy without a standardized form of conduction and effectiveness assessment.
A.A. Zykov, A.E. Vasilyeva, E.Y. Davydova   +2 more
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Animal-assisted therapy used for anxiety disorders in patients with learning disabilities: An observational study [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction: Animal-assisted therapy is defined as the positive interaction between an animal and a patient within a therapeutic framework. Previous studies have reported on the beneficial effects of animal-assisted therapy with patients suffering from ...
Giuliani, Fabienne, Jacquemettaz, Morgane   +1 more
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Optical coherence tomography-based consensus definition for lamellar macular hole. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundA consensus on an optical coherence tomography definition of lamellar macular hole (LMH) and similar conditions is needed.MethodsThe panel reviewed relevant peer-reviewed literature to reach an accord on LMH definition and to differentiate LMH ...
Bottoni, Ferdinando, Chang, Stanley, Figueroa, Marta S, Gaudric, Alain, Govetto, Andrea, Haritoglou, Christos, Hubschman, Jean Pierre, Kadonosono, Kazuaki, Schumann, Ricarda, Sebag, Jerry, Spaide, Richard F, Staurenghi, Giovanni, Steel, David, Tadayoni, Ramin, Thompson, John T   +14 more
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Animal Assisted Therapy is an effort to reduce symptoms of violent behavior in patients with mental disorders

South East Asia Nursing Research, 2023
Violent behavior is a situation in which a person performs an action that can physically harm himself, others, and the environment. The risk of violent behavior is an angry response that is expressed by making threats or injuring oneself or others ...
Tati Nurbiyati, Pawestri Pawestri, Lily Kusuma Dewi, Arum Lia Arivani, Eugene Indira   +4 more
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Animal-assisted interventions: making better use of the human-animal bond [PDF]

, 2014
In the third of Veterinary Record’s series of articles promoting One Health, Daniel Mills and Sophie Hall discuss the therapeutic effects of companion animals, the influence of pets on childhood development and how researchers are elucidating the true ...
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, ANON, Auyeung, Ayres, Banks, Barker, Barker, Beetz, Berkman, Bowlby, Chandler, Charnetsky, Cohen, Cohen, Corson, Deloache, Friedmann, Friesen, Grandgeorge, Gross, Gunter, Haggerty, Headey, Headey, Headey, Heimlich, Kahn, Katcher, Kellert, Knapp, Kruger, Kumasaka, Lang, Macdonald, Marino, Mcnicholas, Melson, Merrick, Mossello, MuÑoz, Nathanson, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE, Norris, O'haire, Panksepp, Poresky, Rieger, Rogers, Serpell, Silva, Turner, Van houtte, Vidovic, Walsh, Wilson, Wisdom   +55 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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Working like a Dog: Exploring the Role of a Therapy Dog in Clinical Exercise Physiology Practice

Animals, 2022
Therapy animals in clinical settings are purported to reduce patients’ anxiety, decrease agitated behaviour, serve as social mediators, enhance the social atmosphere, and increase patients’ openness towards practitioners.
Melainie Cameron, Emily Hewitt, Elizabeth Hollitt, Jacqueline Wood, Samantha Brown   +4 more
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