Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings
eBook - ePub

Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs

  1. 102 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs

About this book

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 programsā€”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 of 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 and 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 an accompanying online user-friendly template that can be adapted to develop practice-specific training, evaluation, and procedure manuals.

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Yes, you can access Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings by Sandra B. Barker,Rebecca A. Vokes,Randolph T. Barker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Medical Theory, Practice & Reference. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. The Health Care Administratorā€™s Overview of AAI
  8. 2. AAI Program Structure
  9. 3. Establishing Requirements: AAI Program Entry
  10. 4. Establishing Requirements: AAI Implementation
  11. 5. Maintaining Compliance: Renewals, Record Keeping, and Team Retention
  12. 6. Program Evaluation
  13. 7. Beyond Visitation: Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) and Facility Dogs
  14. Summary, Opportunity, and the Future
  15. References
  16. Additional Resources