Books
Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Foundations and Guidelines for Animal Assisted Interventions 5th Edition
by Aubrey H Fine
Summary
This book will help therapists discover the benefits of incorporating animal assisted therapy into their practice, how to design and implement animal assisted interventions, and the efficacy of animal assisted therapy with different disorders and patient populations. Coverage includes the use of AAT with children, families and the elderly, in counseling and psychotherapy settings, and for treating a variety of specific disorders.
Includes guidelines and best practices for using animals as therapeutic companions
Addresses specific types of patients and environmental situations
Includes AAI working with cats, dogs, birds, and horses
Discusses why and how animals are used in therapy
Professional Applications of Animal-Assisted Interventions: Gray Dog Book, Third Edition
By Melissa Y. Winkle, OTR/L, FAOTA, CPDT-KA
Summary
The Gray Dog Collection includes introductory and intermediate content such as discussions about screening people for participation, screening dogs for the job, intervention goals, modification of activities, precautions and professional responsibilities. Written by an occupational therapist that also trains dogs, the Gray Dog Collection is a fully illustrated book that describes nearly 50 new activities for participants of all ages and abilities. Readers are taken through activities step by step to identify the therapeutic value, supplies needed, precautions, modification ideas, and dog welfare, well-being and training. Like other books in the series, The Gray Dog Collection offers practitioners and educator’s valuable considerations from the canine perspective, and makes recommendations for prerequisite training skill sets, prior to joining in the activity. Activities from over a decade of workshop contents and clinical application are included. Therapists, veterinarians, educators, dogs with intermediate skills, and participants of all ages and abilities have evaluated the activities and found them to be fun, engaging, safe and purposeful.