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Series
New Directions in the Human Animal Bond
Description
Growing literature around the benefits of animal-assisted intervention (AAI) spurs health care professionals and administrators to start new programs. Yet the trend also raises questions of how best to begin and run successful AAI programs—under what circumstances, with what staff, and within what guidelines.
Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, and evaluate AAI programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences and research from more than fifteen years leading the Center for Human-Animal Interaction in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the authors discuss both best practices and best reasons for establishing AAI programs. For thorough consideration, the text explores benefits from a variety of perspectives, including how AAI can improve patient experience, provide additional career development for staff, and contribute favorably to organizational culture as well as to the reputation of the facility in the surrounding community.
Developed for administrators as well as for volunteers and staff, Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings includes practical, case-based examples for easy comprehension and offers user-friendly templates that can be adapted to develop practice-specific training, evaluation, and procedure manuals.
ISBN
9781557538154
Publication Date
1-2019
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette
Keywords
Animal assisted therapy, animal assisted intervention, animal therapy, dog therapy, pet therapy, animal assisted activity, animal assisted intervention, therapy dog, therapy animal, complementary therapy, alternative therapy, hospital dog, comfort dogs, volunteer dog, hospital volunteer, program management, volunteer management, volunteer recruitment, hospital administration, health care administration, health care management, hospital program, health care facilities, therapy, patient centered care, patient enrichment, quality, health care, health care, quality improvement health care, quality improvement health care, health care quality improvement, patient experience, improving patient experience, program evaluation, patient satisfaction, workforce satisfaction, health care workers, stress management staff, workforce stress management
Disciplines
Veterinary Medicine
Recommended Citation
Barker, Sandra B.; Vokes, Rebecca A.; and Barker, Randolph T., "Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs" (2019). Purdue University Press Book Previews. 22.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_previews/22