Animal-Assisted Intervention Thinking Empirically /

• Main Author: Fournier, Angela K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Health psychology.; Animal welfare.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Psychology, Applied.; Health Psychology.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Applied Psychology.

 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. 

 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Human-Animal Interaction Analysis -- Chapter 3: HAI Dose in Animal-Assisted Intervention -- Chapter 4: Animals as Anodyne -- Chapter 5: Animals as Intervention Agents -- Chapter 6: Studying Animal-Assisted Intervention Through Citizen Science -- Chapter 7: Toward Empirical Thinking and Creative Inquiry.