Animal Assisted Therapy: Social Work Models Based on Companionships

doi:10.11885/j.issn.1674-5094.2018.10.25.01

Abstract

Abstract: In exploring ways of communicating with their clients, social work practitioners learn from animals and achieve physical and mental healing and development by involving animals as companions. Based on the role of animals in the service process, practitioners explore the models of animal assisted support, animal assisted treatment and animal assisted development,and formulate the implementation procedure of intimacy testing,animal screening,attending skill training,touching and companionship,commitment integration,self-release and expression,and curative effect evaluation and disengagement. In the specific application of animal assisted therapy, practitioners can combine the skills of patience sustaining, spiritual teaching, metaphorical animal stories, and stress recognition and processing. On the other hand, it is also necessary for practitioners to improve their own competence in companioning, assisting, inspiring, healing and soothing their clients, and to enhance their cultural and ethical sensitivity.

Key words: social work, psychological therapy, animal assisted therapy, companion therapy, companion animals

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C916.2

LIU Binzhi, WANG Liyuan. Animal Assisted Therapy: Social Work Models Based on Companionships[J]. 西南石油大学学报(社会科学版), 2019, 21(2): 33-42.

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