Using the key historical roots, developments and pioneers introduced to you in Book 1.3 develop an animal-assisted interventions timeline.
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Sources of food and clothing
Religious symbols
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Units of barter
Measures of wealth
Entertainment and sport
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Comparative models of medicine and biomedical research
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Joint burial sites of people with animals suggest a long standing symbiotic relationship between humans and other animals.
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Proposed horse riding as treatment for melancholia.
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Use of animals as sacrifices
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Healing power of dogs licking the wounds of humans
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animals assist in the learning associations made by children
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Satter, Doreen B. “Companion Animals and Your Health: How Pets Help Us Deal with Stress
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sugegstion that small animals limited depression in patients
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Perhaps as a result of co-habiting with animals, a benefit of companionship evolved beyond USE of animals.
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use of dog in psychotherpy sessions
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Lima asylum noticed and utilised inmates attempts to connect with animals, eg feeding a bird
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UK
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use of terrier on medical rounds to 'cheer' patient up
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Member of family and social support network
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Established the use of farm to facilitate education of mainstream learners (now SEN focus)
Use of attachment theory and nurture principles to enhance the parenting skills of children who have no pre-existing template from their own formative years. -
First talk of animal assisted therapy
Referred to incidental finding of children responding more positively in therapy sessions attended by a dog
Suggestion that child communication enhanced by animal intervention "A pet is an island of sanity in what appears to be an insane world. Friendship retains its traditional values and securities in one's relationship with one's pet... one can rely upon the fact that one's pet will always remain a faithful, intimate, non-competitive friend ...'' -
First pet assisted therapy programme at Ohio Sate University in America
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Founded the Delta Society (now Pets as Partners) as a 'human services organisation dedicated to improving people's health and well-being ... through positive interaction with animals'.
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opened a drug rehabilitation centre which later developed AAI techniques
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UK
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Longitudinal emedical research correlating life expectancy after leaving hospital with pet companionship. ie those patients who had undergone heart surgery were more lkely to be alive one year on if they lived wth a pet at home.
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Instigated Prison pet partnerships: training special dogs that could assist others based on her own experience training a german shepherd dog after her own release from prison
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Pets as Therapy for people who are institutionalised and miss their own pets.
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UK
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Therapet Scotland = dog visitation programme to sspecialist provisions and institutions for vulnerable people
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Political body representing other organisations involved in human-animal bond work
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Scientific research organisation: publishes 'Anthrozoos'
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Youth offending programme with dogs aimed to improve self-esteem and team working and reduce reoffending.
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Published Biophilia Hypothesis; existence of a fundamental, genetically based, human need and propensity to affiliate with life and lifelike processes. 'Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.' 1984 Biophilia.
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Created telephone support service for bereaved pet lovers that developed into PBSS 0800 096 6606
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Reported elevated heart rates of children after AAT
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Provides and promotes quality control of public and private institutionsin Japan, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland
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Documented reduced depressed symptoms in people living in care homes and psychiatric units as a result of animal visits
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Animal Assisted Intervention assignment 2 submission
