Animal-assisted Therapy and Activities: A Study and Research Resource Guide for the Use of Companion Animals in Animal-assisted Interventions

Phil Arkow

Published by: AnimalTherapy.net, 2015 - Health & Fitness - 190 pages

This comprehensive study describes clinical and institutional therapies and activities using animals in physical and mental health programs with children, seniors, and a wide range of special populations. Topics include how to become an AAT/AAA practitioner, how to organize an AAT/AAA program, and techniques for conducting animal-assisted interventions. Extensive bibliographies and resources include materials on prison programs, service dogs for veterans, reading interventions, infectious disease control guidelines, state regulations, and directories of academic and programmatic centers. The 10th Edition of this book, first published in 1977, has been revised with all-new resources. This textbook is used internationally and in several college courses.

About the author

PHIL ARKOW is an adjunct faculty member at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ, where he teaches distance learning and campus Certificate courses in Animal-Assisted Therapy and Activities. An internationally acclaimed lecturer and trainer on human-animal interactions and their therapeutic applications, and a prolific writer, he has worked in the human-animal bond and humane fields since 1973.He initiated and managed the “Pet-Mobile” Animal-Assisted Activities and Therapy program at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, Colorado Springs, CO, from 1973 – 1993, where he conducted over 2,000 AAA/AAT programs. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Delta Society and the American Association of Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians, and on the Animal Welfare Committee of the American Veterinary Medical Association.He was one of the founders of the National Link Coalition, the National Animal Control Association, the Colorado Federation of Animal Welfare Agencies, and the Animal Welfare Federation of New Jersey. He has headed the animal abuse/human violence programs for the American Humane Association and the Latham Foundation. He has served as a consultant with the ASPCA and the Animals and Society Institute.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Animal-assisted Therapy and Activities: A Study and Research Resource Guide for the Use of Companion Animals in Animal-assisted Interventions
• Author: Phil Arkow
• Edition: 10, illustrated
• Publisher: Published by: AnimalTherapy.net, 2015
• ISBN: 0615462391, 9780615462394
• Length: 190 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / General; Pets / General