Animal-Assisted Intervention: Thinking Empirically (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030329716)

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.

Author: Angela K. Fournier
ISBN-10: 3030329712
ISBN-13: 9783030329716
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2019
Pages: 140
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d