Description: Further DetailsTitle: Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care SettingsCondition: NewSubtitle: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New ProgramsEAN: 9781557538154ISBN: 9781557538154Publisher: Purdue University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/30/2019Description: Growing literature around the benefits ofanimal-assisted intervention (AAI) spurs health care professionals andadministrators to start new programs. Yet the trend also raises questions ofhow 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 BestPractices Manual for Establishing New Programs succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, andevaluate AAI programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences andresearch from more than fifteen years leading the Center for Human-AnimalInteraction in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, theauthors discuss both best practices and best reasons for establishing AAIprograms. For thorough consideration, the text explores benefits from a varietyof perspectives, including how AAI can improve patient experience, provideadditional career development for staff, and contribute favorably toorganizational culture as well as to the reputation of the facility in thesurrounding community.Developed for administrators as well as forvolunteers and staff, Animal-AssistedInterventions in Health Care Settings includes practical, case-basedexamples for easy comprehension and offers user-friendly templates that can beadapted to develop practice-specific training, evaluation, and proceduremanuals.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 182gAuthor: Rebecca A. Vokes, Randolph T. Barker, Sandra B. BarkerGenre: Business & FinanceBook Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal BondTopic: MedicineRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings
Title: Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings
Subtitle: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs
EAN: 9781557538154
ISBN: 9781557538154
Release Date: 01/30/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 102 Pages
Publication Name: Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings : A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs
Language: English
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Subject: Administration, Dogs / Training, Veterinary Medicine / Small Animal
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6.3 Oz
Author: Sandra B. Barker, Rebecca A. Vokes, Randolph T. Barker
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Pets, Medical
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
