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Animal-Assisted Intervention

Thinking Empirically

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  • © 2019

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  • Promotes the use of empirical methods in animal practices with a specific focus on animal-assisted intervention
  • Introduces a conceptual model to organize and explain animal-assisted intervention outcomes
  • Centers around deep analysis of the human-animal interaction and the animal's role within animal-assisted interventions

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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.

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  • Psychology, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, USA

    Angela K. Fournier

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Angela K. Fournier is Professor of Psychology in the College of Individual and Community Health at Bemidji State University, USA. She is a licensed psychologist and certified mental-health specialist in equine-assisted psychotherapy and learning.

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