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- Encompasses social welfare issues that affect people with pets like homelessness, domestic violence and disaster relief
- Discusses compassion fatigue, emotional-support & psychiatric-service animals and other veterinary social work aspects
- Dispels myths about animal-assisted therapy (AAT), therapy animals, and service animals
Part of the book series: Essential Clinical Social Work Series (ECSWS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In this book, the author includes a discussion of the myriad of ways that clinicians can directly help people care for their pets, such as crisis intervention services, policy issues, grief counseling for pet loss, and compassion fatigue in the veterinary profession. There also is a thorough discussion of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) as a distinct and unique modality. The adaptive nature of AAT is not only due to the symbiotic relationship between humans and animals, but also because of the flexible nature of the model; it can be used with clients of all demographics and with most mental illnesses. Research shows that the majority of mental health practitioners believe that AAT is a valid treatment modality, but AAT has not yet been manualized and clinicians are left confused about where to start.
The Human-Animal Bond in Clinical Social Work Practice is a unique and essential resource that provides guidelines for developing AAT treatment plans and integrating AAT with existing therapeutic models. The book answers the questions that social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health counselors may have about the benefits of the human-animal bond and ways to tap into that special bond in direct practice.
Keywords
- human-animal bond (HAB)
- animal-assisted therapy (AAT)
- pet therapy
- psychiatric service animal
- therapy animal
- emotional support animal
- attachment theory
- animal-assisted activities
- veterinary social work practice
- disaster relief
- domestic violence
- grief counseling
- pet loss
- breed-specific legislation (BSL)
- crisis intervention
- compassion fatigue
- animal welfare issues
Authors and Affiliations
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NYU Silver School of Social Work, New York, USA
Katherine Compitus
About the author
Katherine Compitus, DSW, LCSW, MSEd, MA is a doctor of clinical social work and a licensed clinical social worker. Her research focuses primarily on social policy, mental health, and the human-animal bond. Katherine is the founder and chairman of Surrey Hills Sanctuary, a non-profit organization providing veterinary social work services to trauma and abuse survivors in New York State. She has lectured extensively on Animal-Assisted Therapy, Grief Counseling for Pet Loss, Suicidality in Veterinary Professionals, and Crisis Intervention for People with Pets. Katherine is currently a lecturer in the graduate social work schools at Columbia University, Fordham University, and New York University (NYU), where she developed and currently teaches the Human-Animal Bond course at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. Early in her social work career Katherine provided bilingual animal-assisted therapy at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, helped establisha therapy animal program at an AHRC preschool, and was a grief counselor for pet loss at the Animal Medical Center in New York City. Born and raised in New York City, she now spends most of her time in upstate New York with her husband and the 30+ animals at the sanctuary, including chickens, potbellied pigs, pigeons, cats, dogs, and two naughty steer (bulls).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Human-Animal Bond in Clinical Social Work Practice
Authors: Katherine Compitus
Series Title: Essential Clinical Social Work Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87783-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87782-8Published: 13 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87783-5Published: 12 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2520-162X
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1611
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 91
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, Psychotherapy