Animal Assisted Therapy Use Application by Condition 1st Edition

Your Comprehensive Guide to Animal-Assisted Therapy Applications

This book provides the most updated and comprehensive data knowledge on animal-assisted therapy (AAT). It synthesizes historical information, theory, clinical practice, and data from recent clinical studies on AAT for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other diseases. Written by international experts, this resource employs a hypothesis-driven, data-rich approach to inform readers on current research and serves as a vital reference for clinical practice.

Key Features

• Essential Information: Includes essential information on animal-assisted therapy for clinicians, researchers, students, and animal training and handling organizations.
• Mechanisms of Action: Examines PTSD in history, literature, and arts, along with theories of the mechanism of clinical action of animal-assisted therapy.
• War Combat Veterans: Features unique contributions by war combat veterans who use animal-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD.
• Multidisciplinary Authorship: Contributions are drawn from international experts in medicine, clinical psychology and therapy, speech therapy, clinical research, and animal training and welfare.
• Data-Driven Approach: The book uses a hypothesis-driven, data-rich approach to inform readers on current research and serve as a reference for clinical practice.