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    Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Professional Counselors, School Counselors, Social Workers, and Educators
    Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Professional Counselors, School Counselors, Social Workers, and Educators
    Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Professional Counselors, School Counselors, Social Workers, and Educators
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    Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Professional Counselors, School Counselors, Social Workers, and Educators

    By Lynda M. King

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    This book will provide the reader with a well rounded understanding of animal-assisted therapy, or "pet therapy." Animal-assisted therapy is a therapeutic tool that is used to faciliate the client's treatment and recovery process. Some of the people who will benefit from reading this book include counselors, school counselors, social workers, educators, students, and anyone interested in animal-assisted therapy. Teachers may implement this book in their instructional materials.


    Authors, books, journals, articles, and resources have been consolidated into a descriptive designed graduate level thesis. There is a detailed table of contents that will allow the reader to quickly access the section he or she is looking for. A glossary consisting of animal-assisted therapy topics is provided. This book reads easily and will engage the reader.


    Ways to integrate land and marine mammals into the client's treatment will be shown, as well as kinds of land and marine mammals to be utilized. Animal-assisted therapy may be utilized with many clinical diagnoses and therapeutic issues. There are many types of facilities that may benefit from animal-assisted therapy. Examples and further explanation will be given addressing these topics.


    Basic tenets, ethical issues, and certification will be explained. Within the helping professions, ethics are vital and certification has become mandatory in many states. The needs of the client, the clinician, and the animal will be discussed. Benefits of animal-assisted therapy will be included.


    Resources that will facilitate the implementation of animal-assisted therapy will be shown. The reader who would like to pursue animal-assisted therapy in further detail will be given additional resources. The goal of this descriptive designed graduate level thesis was to consolidate many good works into one book. As time advances, the material presented in this book will continue to be useful.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 1, 2007
    ISBN9781467812214
    Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Professional Counselors, School Counselors, Social Workers, and Educators
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    Lynda M. King

    Lynda M. King went to Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. She completed an experimental psychology project on the interaction between humans and the guinea pig, implementing her guinea pig Browny. She completed internships at an elementary school, nursing home, and mental health center. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Ms. King attended graduate school at Ottawa University, in Phoenix, Arizona. She completed a Master's research project that compiled several good authors and animal-assisted therapy topics into one book. Ms. King interned at a domestic violence shelter and at an adolescent residential treatment center. She graduated from Ottawa University with a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling, and obtained licensure in the state of Arizona in 2004.  Ms. King worked as a therapist at a mental health center in Arizona. She worked with children, adolescents, and adults. She incorporated her Holland Lop rabbit, named Cody, into the counseling sessions. A child who was working on issues of both defiance and hygiene related well to Cody. Cody purposely tipped over his water bowl. The child appeared amazed when Ms. King corrected Cody appropriately. Cody would display acts of good hygiene, and the child would observe him. Cody also served as a positive reward system when the child had appropriate behavior. Ms. King was able to correlate Cody's behavior with the children's behavior and incorporate animal-assisted therapy into their treatment goals. In 2006, Ms. King and Cody obtained certification through the Animals Benefit Club of Arizona/Pet Partners Delta Society and are now a registered pet partner's team. Ms. King has always had affection for marine and land animals. Ms. King especially enjoys dolphins, and participated in the "Trainer for a Day" program at SeaWorld in San Diego, California. Lynda King can be contacted at talk2lynda@msn.com or at animal_assisted_therapy@yahoo.com. 

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      Animal-Assisted Therapy - Lynda M. King

      © 2007 Lynda M. King. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 10/30/2007

      ISBN: 978-1-4208-8662-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4678-1221-4 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2006911200

      Printed in the United States of America

      Bloomington, Indiana

      For Cody, my pet partner and co-therapy bunny

      For my little spirit angels who have passed on

      Acknowledgement

      I would like to acknowledge the following people. I completed my graduate degree and my graduate thesis project at Ottawa University, in Phoenix, Arizona. Rodney Kirkham was my instructor at Ottawa University and guided me in the development of my thesis. A previous counseling director at Ottawa University, Ron Frost, reviewed and approved my thesis project. Tom Roche also reviewed my project. The illustrations were created by the author and Phillip Lansing. Phillip Lansing drew them. My portrait with Cody was taken by Life Touch Portrait Studios Inc. at JCPenneys. Michael Brown and Keri Smith took the photographs. I thank each of you for your own individual and unique effort that you contributed to my book.

      ABSTRACT

      It is difficult for the client to enter a counseling office and begin sharing intimate details about his or her life to a therapist who he or she has never seen before. Animals provide an excellent means of establishing rapport, trust, and safety between the therapist and client. Animals of all kinds may be integrated into the treatment plan of the client and facilitate the counseling process. Animal-assisted therapy is considered an adjunct to the client’s treatment.

      Children relate especially well to animals, however, people of all ages may benefit in the presence of an animal. When animal-assisted therapy is integrated and implemented properly, the client, therapist, and animal all benefit from the experience.

      This guide defines animal-assisted therapy and discusses the client populations who may benefit, as well as benefits to clients, the professional, and the animals. Facilities where animal-assisted therapy may be integrated are also identified. Some examples of animals that may be integrated as well as applications are given.

      Tenets, ethical issues, and training and certification are included. Resources for the reader to expand his or her knowledge further in the area of animal-assisted therapy are given.

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      Contents

      CHAPTER 1

      THE PROBLEM

      CHAPTER 2

      LITERATURE REVIEW

      CHAPTER 3

      METHODOLOGY

      CHAPTER 4

      SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

      REFERENCE LIST

      APPENDIX A:

      LIST OF AAT RESOURCES

      ADDITIONS SINCE ANIMAL ASSISTED

      THERAPY WAS WRITTEN

      About the Book

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      CHAPTER 1

      THE PROBLEM

      Introduction

      Animal-assisted therapy has become a therapeutic technique that facilitates the counseling process. Animal-assisted therapy is goal-oriented, and uses an animal to help meet the treatment process of the client. There is literature, which is not consolidated, on the topic of animal-assisted therapy. The interested professional must spend additional time researching many areas in order to understand and learn about animal-assisted therapy. Animal-assisted therapy incorporates an animal into the client’s treatment plan, which may positively affect the counseling process. All sorts of animals, whether domestic, farm, water, or marine, facilitate the counseling process in many different and beneficial ways.

      The focus of this study was to develop a guidebook that will educate mental health professionals about the use of animal-assisted therapy. This guidebook will include the client populations that animals may be integrated with, benefits to the client and therapist, facilities where animals may be included, applications and uses of animal-assisted therapy, basic tenets and ethical issues, and training

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