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Construct Validity Of Animal-Assisted Therapy And Activities: How Important Is The Animal In Aat?, Lori Marino
Construct Validity Of Animal-Assisted Therapy And Activities: How Important Is The Animal In Aat?, Lori Marino
Lori Marino, PhD
Animal-assisted therapy and animal-assisted activities involve a nonhuman animal as a key therapeutic agent in some kind of intervention that may range from highly specified, as in AAT, to more casual, as in AAA. In this review I address the question: How important is the animal in animal therapy? In other words, does the recent literature strongly support the notion that a live animal, as opposed to another novel stimulating component, is specifically necessary for therapeutic success. Two meta-analyses and 28 single empirical studies were reviewed in order to address this issue. I conclude that the effects of AAT and …
The Future Of Big Data: Innovative Methodological Approaches, Liz Mcconnell, Michelle Birkett, Mona Shattell Phd, Rn, Faan
The Future Of Big Data: Innovative Methodological Approaches, Liz Mcconnell, Michelle Birkett, Mona Shattell Phd, Rn, Faan
Mona Shattell
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