Animal-Assisted Intervention: Thinking Empirically

By Angela K Fournier and Angela K. Fournier

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030329712
• ISBN13: 9783030329716
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"