Animal Assisted Therapy Paper

I like your choice of investigating Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT), like yourself I feel a therapy animal can be the means for some people to make that therapeutic connection and change. After reading your post I found an article which was rather interesting, discussing how AAT can be used in 9 different forms of therapy from Person Centered Therapy to Solution Focused Counseling. Although, the article only discussed the use of equine (horses) therapy and canine (dogs) therapy their uses and results are quite remarkable. Chandler, Portrie-Bethke, Minton, Fernando, and O’Callaghan (2010) report in some client’s a brief session of therapy using a dog can help reduce blood level stress hormones and increase the hormones associated with healing