Animal-assisted Interventions

Recognizing and Mitigating Potential Welfare Challenges
This highly practical and engaging book with examples of real life situations, videos and case studies, explores how to conduct animal assisted interventions in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. It is for ethologists, animal behavior and welfare students and practitioners as well as for social scientists.
This is a practical book exploring how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. This resource is for social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies, etc.), as well as ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners. The book is a series of short chapters that depict a wide array of AAIs and their potential welfare concerns. The chapters include descriptions of the AAI offered, the welfare challenges, and ways to successfully mitigate these challenges. This book also covers critical topics including therapy animals' aging, retirement, and death as well as ethical issues including animal consent. Species include not only dogs, but horses, rabbits, and other small animals (e.g., guinea pigs, mice, etc.). Types of AAI involve individual interventions as well as crisis dogs (those who help after natural and man-made disasters), and residential animals. The book is designed to be a practical, engaging book with links to video and examples of real-life situations. It is evidence-based, yet user-friendly and directly applicable to students and practitioners. This highly practical and engaging book with examples of real life situations, videos and case studies, explores how to conduct animal assisted interventions in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. The book: · Explores how to conduct animal assisted intervention (AAI) in ways that protect and prioritize animal and human welfare. · Discusses potential welfare challenges including how to advocate for the animal, animal consent, and the animal's aging, retirement, or death. · Evidence based approach to mitigating welfare concerns for a wide range of therapy animals including dogs, horses, rabbits, rodents, and exotic animals - and their recipients. An invaluable resource for ethologists and animal behaviour and welfare students and practitioners, as well as social scientists (e.g., psychology, social work, human development and family studies).

Contributor: Lori Kogan (Edited by), Patti Anderson (Contributions by), Nicky Barendrecht-Jenken (Contributions by), Anna van den Berg (Contributions by), Darlene Blackman (Contributions by), Eileen Bona (Contributions by), Donna Clarke (Contributions by), Linda Chassman Craddock (Contributions by), Yvonne Eaton-Stull (Contributions by), Aubrey H. Fine (Contributions by), Cynnie Foss (Contributions by), Angela Fournier (Contributions by), Megan French (Contributions by), Nina Ekholm Fry (Contributions by), Lisa-Maria Glenk (Contributions by), Temple Grandin (Contributions by), Susan D. Greenbaum (Contributions by), Taylor Chastain Griffin (Contributions by), Joy R. Hanson (Contributions by), Terri Hlava (Contributions by), Ann R. Howie (Contributions by), Batya Gugenheim Jaffe (Contributions by), Amy Johnson (Contributions by), Suzanne M. Kapral (Contributions by), Jean Kirnan (Contributions by), Ursula A. Aragunde Kohl (Contributions by), Veronica Lac (Contributions by), Elizabeth A. Letson (Contributions by), Helen Lewis (Contributions by), Kirsty MacQueen (Contributions by), Arieahn Matamonasa-Bennett (Contributions by), Angela M. Moe (Contributions by), Julie Ann Nettifee (Contributions by), Zenithson Ng (Contributions by), Brittany Panus (Contributions by), Caiti Peters (Contributions by), Laura Poleshuck (Contributions by), Missy Reed (Contributions by), Elizabeth Ruegg (Contributions by), Brenda Rynders (Contributions by), Sarah Schlote (Contributions by), Shira Smilovici (Contributions by), Ashley Thompson (Contributions by), Risë VanFleet (Contributions by), Melissa Y. Winkle (Contributions by), Katrina Winsor (Contributions by)

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