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Recommended reading and useful links
Recommended reading
Abdill, M. and Juppe, D. 2000. Pets in Therapy: Animal Assisted Activities in Health Care Facilities. Idyll Arbor. ISBN 1882883292
Chandler, C.K. 2005. Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 0415952026
Delta Society. 1996. Standards of Practice for animal-assisted activities and therapy. Available from the Delta Society www.deltasociety.org
Fine, A. (Ed.) 2006. 2nd ed. Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Theoretical Foundations and Guidelines for Practice. USA: Academic Press. ISBN 0 12 369484 1
Useful links
www.deltasociety.org The Delta Society is US-based charity. Evaluates and registers therapy animals in the USA. Offers training in animal-assisted therapy and has a good selection of publications in this field.
www.greenchimneys.org Green Chimneys is a recognised world-leader in animal-assisted therapy programmes for children with emotional, behavioural and learning challenges. Offers residential treatment and a special education school.
www.animaltherapy.net Phil Arkow has prepared an up-to-date, comprehensive bibliography of research papers, conference reports and books on many aspects of animal-assisted therapy.
http://www.therapyanimals.org/read/index.php Intermountain Therapy Animals offers the Reading Education Assistance Dogs programme (R.E.A.D) aimed at improving the literacy skills of children through the assistance of Pet Partner therapy teams as literacy mentors. The programme improves children’s reading and communication skills by reading to a therapy dog.
Particularly relevant to the UK:
www.eagala.org.uk Offers updates and training courses for anyone interested in learning more about equine assisted psychotherapy.
www.petsastherapy.org UK-based Pets as Therapy register volunteers and their own temperament-tested pets to provide therapeutic visits to people in a variety of institutions. The charity is also involved in the treatment of dog-phobic children at the Sunderland Royal Hospital
www.ccst.freeserve.co.uk Scotland-based Canine Concern Scotland Trust runs the Therapet pet visiting scheme.
www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys (EST) is a charity dedicated to providing riding therap-y with donkeys to children with special needs and disabilities. The aims of Trust are to bring enjoyment and pleasure into the lives of children with special needs and disabilities and to give them the satisfaction that comes with the achievement of learning riding skills.
www.riding-for-the-disabled.org.uk Riding for the Disabled is a federation of Member Groups, which are dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities, through the provision of opportunities for riding and or carriage driving. Groups enable people to improve their health and wellbeing, delivering a real and lasting therapy that not only benefits mobility and co-ordination, but encourages confidence and self worth whilst having fun.