Therapy Pets - The Animal-Human Healing Partnership

Informationen zum Autor By Jacqueline Crawford and Karen A. Pomerinke - Photographs by Donald W. Smith Klappentext In this uplifting book we learn firsthand how the field of Animal Assisted Therapy is having remarkable success training animals to help and enhance the lives of children and adults with serious medical problems. Hospital rehabilitation programs, physical and occupational therapy sessions, nursing homes, mental healthcare facilities, and hospice programs are just some of the settings where dogs, cats, horses, and other animals have helped patients cope with often daunting medical challenges.With more than fifty photographs showing the visible improvements that trained therapy pets are making in the lives of sick and disabled people, the compelling stories relate many inspiring incidents of the healing animal-human partnership: six-year-old Brendan, disabled from birth, successfully completes his physical therapy with the help of Zorro, a big black hound once considered unadoptable; Philip, a hospice patient in his last days, finds some joy in the company of a therapy dog named Andy; and Tikva, a Keeshond therapy dog from Oregon, helps to comfort emotionally drained firefighters at New York City's Ground Zero.For animal lovers, healthcare providers, and anyone who appreciates how animals and humans interrelate, this is a wonderful, truly inspirational book. Zusammenfassung With more than fifty photographs showing the improvements that trained therapy pets are making in the lives of sick and disabled people, this work presents stories, that relate many inspiring incidents of the healing animal-human partnership. It is intended for animal lovers, health care providers, and others.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Crawford, Jacqueline J Crawford, Jacqueline J Pomerinke Crawford, Jacqueline J. Crawford, Jacqueline Pomerinke Crawford, Karen A. Pomerinke, Pomerinke Karen A., Donald W. Smith
• Assisted by: Donald W. Smith (Photographs), Smith Donald W. (Photographs)
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9781591020714
• ISBN: 978-1-59102-071-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PETS / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Domestic animals & pets, Domestic animals and pets