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2014

University of Central Florida

Aat; Animal assisted therapy

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Effects Of Animal Assisted Therapy On Human Health, Gene Swanson Aug 2014

Effects Of Animal Assisted Therapy On Human Health, Gene Swanson

HIM 1990-2015

The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an integrative review of existing literature focusing on Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT), specifically canines, on human health. The reviewed articles were published between the years of 2000 to 2014, written in the English language, scholarly in nature, in peer-reviewed journals with access to full text electronic versions of the article, along with articles that provided current anecdotal information related to the effects of AAT. Search terms included the phrase, "animal assisted therapy" in the title. Results of the literature search yielded an enormous quantity of recent and innovative research on various aspects …