Overview
- Promotes the use of empirical methods in animal practices with a specific focus on animal-assisted intervention
- Introduces a conceptual model to organize and explain animal-assisted intervention outcomes
- Centers around deep analysis of the human-animal interaction and the animal's role within animal-assisted interventions
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This book brings the animal into the scholarly discussion of animal-assisted therapy and other interventions. Challenging the current reliance on outcome studies, the author offers a new way of thinking empirically about animal-assisted interventions—analysis of human-animal interaction as a critical component. Through empirical demonstrations from laboratory and applied settings, the book encourages practitioners and scholars to undergo a deeper examination of the basic interactions that occur between clients or patients and therapy animals. Dr. Fournier provides new ideas on measurement, experimentation, and interpretation of human-animal interaction, aimed at identifying the role of the animal in interventions for human health and well-being.
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About the author
Angela K. Fournier is Professor of Psychology in the College of Individual and Community Health at Bemidji State University, USA. She is a licensed psychologist and certified mental-health specialist in equine-assisted psychotherapy and learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animal-Assisted Intervention
Book Subtitle: Thinking Empirically
Authors: Angela K. Fournier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32972-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32971-6Published: 19 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32972-3Published: 09 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 140
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Psychology, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Applied Psychology