Using the key historical roots, developments and pioneers introduced to you in Book 1.3 develop an animal-assisted interventions timeline.
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Traditional uses of animals
Sources of food and clothing
Religious symbols
Transportation and 'beasts of burden' -
100
Traditional uses of animals
Units of barter
Measures of wealth
Entertainment and sport
Security and protection -
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Continued use of animals
Comparative models of medicine and biomedical research
Vivisection -
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Israel archeological finds
Joint burial sites of people with animals suggest a long standing symbiotic relationship between humans and other animals. -
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Ancient Greeks
Proposed horse riding as treatment for melancholia. -
200
Ancient Egypt
Use of animals as sacrifices -
Sep 23, 1350
Middle ages
Healing power of dogs licking the wounds of humans -
John Locke
animals assist in the learning associations made by children -
York Retreat
Satter, Doreen B. “Companion Animals and Your Health: How Pets Help Us Deal with Stress
and Other Conditions.” Associated Content, April 12, 2007, http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type+article&content_type_id+202525 -
Flo Nightingale
sugegstion that small animals limited depression in patients -
Companionship develops
Perhaps as a result of co-habiting with animals, a benefit of companionship evolved beyond USE of animals. -
Freud
use of dog in psychotherpy sessions -
Dave Lee
Lima asylum noticed and utilised inmates attempts to connect with animals, eg feeding a bird -
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
UK -
Charles Mayo
use of terrier on medical rounds to 'cheer' patient up -
Development of interaction with animals
Member of family and social support network -
Green Chimneys
Established the use of farm to facilitate education of mainstream learners (now SEN focus)
Use of attachment theory and nurture principles to enhance the parenting skills of children who have no pre-existing template from their own formative years. -
Levinson: Pet Oriented Child Psychotherapy
First talk of animal assisted therapy
Referred to incidental finding of children responding more positively in therapy sessions attended by a dog
Suggestion that child communication enhanced by animal intervention "A pet is an island of sanity in what appears to be an insane world. Friendship retains its traditional values and securities in one's relationship with one's pet... one can rely upon the fact that one's pet will always remain a faithful, intimate, non-competitive friend ...'' -
Corson
First pet assisted therapy programme at Ohio Sate University in America -
Bustad (and McCulloch 1981; Hines 1983)
Founded the Delta Society (now Pets as Partners) as a 'human services organisation dedicated to improving people's health and well-being ... through positive interaction with animals'. -
Vincenzo Muccioli
opened a drug rehabilitation centre which later developed AAI techniques -
SCAS
UK -
Friedman et al.
Longitudinal emedical research correlating life expectancy after leaving hospital with pet companionship. ie those patients who had undergone heart surgery were more lkely to be alive one year on if they lived wth a pet at home. -
Pauline Quinn
Instigated Prison pet partnerships: training special dogs that could assist others based on her own experience training a german shepherd dog after her own release from prison -
Lesley Scott-Ordish
Pets as Therapy for people who are institutionalised and miss their own pets. -
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
UK -
Marjorie Henley-Price
Therapet Scotland = dog visitation programme to sspecialist provisions and institutions for vulnerable people -
The International Association for Human-Animal Interaction Organisations
Political body representing other organisations involved in human-animal bond work -
International Society for Anthrozoology
Scientific research organisation: publishes 'Anthrozoos' -
Joan Dalton Project Pooch
Youth offending programme with dogs aimed to improve self-esteem and team working and reduce reoffending. -
Edward Wilson
Published Biophilia Hypothesis; existence of a fundamental, genetically based, human need and propensity to affiliate with life and lifelike processes. 'Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.' 1984 Biophilia. -
Anne Docherty inspired by Dr Mary Stewart
Created telephone support service for bereaved pet lovers that developed into PBSS 0800 096 6606 -
Kaminski
Reported elevated heart rates of children after AAT -
International Society for Animal-Assisted Therapy
Provides and promotes quality control of public and private institutionsin Japan, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland -
Souter and Miller
Documented reduced depressed symptoms in people living in care homes and psychiatric units as a result of animal visits -
Deadline
Animal Assisted Intervention assignment 2 submission
