Volunteering With Your Pet: How to Get Involved InAnimal-Assisted Therapy With Any Kind of Pet"Dr. Mary Burch's Volunteering With Your Pet is a necessary manual for anyone who wishes to join the growing number of volunteers who are bringing comfort and well-being into therapy settings by supplementing conventional medicine with the healing potential of contact with animals." —Dr. Aaron Katcher, Associate Professor Emeritus Oral Medicine and Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania This is a book for anyone interested in working with their pet to help others: clients in nursing homes, students at all grade levels, people with physical or emotional disabilities—even prisoners. Today there are countless opportunities to use animals as catalysts to better health. Volunteering With Your Pet gives in-depth information on getting started, including how to evaluate your pet and yourself to determine what kind of setting and work in which you'd be best. A section on which pets do what and why has chapters on activities for dogs, cats, horses, farm animals and other critters; another section explains what to expect in various therapeutic settings. Numerous case studies show how you and your pet can make a difference. |
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... BEHAVIOR Problems Before addressing a potential behavior problem using behavioral procedures , it is important to rule out health problems . Dogs who are hand - shy may have ear infections or vision problems . Appar- ent behavior ...
... BEHAVIOR Problems Before addressing a potential behavior problem using behavioral procedures , it is important to rule out health problems . Dogs who are hand - shy may have ear infections or vision problems . Appar- ent behavior ...
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... BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS OF CATS IN THERAPY SETTINGS Therapy cats might have some behavior problems that will need to be addressed . Many cats , especially males , scent mark areas by spraying urine . Cat breeders recommend neutering as a ...
... BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS OF CATS IN THERAPY SETTINGS Therapy cats might have some behavior problems that will need to be addressed . Many cats , especially males , scent mark areas by spraying urine . Cat breeders recommend neutering as a ...
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... problems and severe behavior problems that followed the injury resulted in Dean spending the rest of his childhood years in special programs . By the time he was twenty - two , Dean was severely aggressive . He had no impulse control ...
... problems and severe behavior problems that followed the injury resulted in Dean spending the rest of his childhood years in special programs . By the time he was twenty - two , Dean was severely aggressive . He had no impulse control ...
Contents
A History of AnimalAssisted Therapy 3 | 3 |
Getting Started 9 | 9 |
Dogs | 45 |
Copyright | |
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