What Animal-Assisted Therapy Is — and What It Is Not
The animal is not a toy in the room; the session works because goals, handler and animal welfare are planned together.
What studies and practice say about how animals help.
The animal is not a toy in the room; the session works because goals, handler and animal welfare are planned together.
Biophilia, the Yerkes-Dodson curve and oxytocin: why a calm animal changes a therapy room.
Goals and documentation on one side, spontaneous comfort on the other; both matter, differently.
Anxiety, mood, trauma and social connection: what the evidence supports, and its honest limits.
Cardiovascular calm, disguised exercise and the quiet engine of motivation in rehabilitation.
Baselines, countable goals and honest review points turn goodwill into treatment.