Therapy Dogs Compassionate Modalities
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Therapy Dogs Compassionate Modalities
SKU: S-444
PRICE: 44.99
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Therapy Dogs Compassionate Modalities Description
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Author: Kris Butler
Publisher: Funpuddle Publishing Assoc.
Therapy Dogs: Compassionate Modalities takes its audience beyond warm and fuzzy visits, to interventions that are functional as well as fun. Volunteers, health care providers, and dog trainers will benefit from observing creative exercises that include dogs to meet a variety of clinical goals.
The 46-minute DVD contains an introduction to the important roles (dog, handler, staff) associated with every animal-enhanced intervention. Then, seven vignettes demonstrate therapeutic exercises. After each vignette, two lists appear.
The first list identifies the skills demonstrated by the dog(s) in the preceding vignette. The lists of canine skills are intended to help dog trainers and instructors prepare their clients to participate in similar exercises.
The second list identifies specific treatment goals. The lists of patient goals are intended to increase human service providers’ awareness of therapeutic possibilities associated with similar animal-enhanced exercises. More than 80 functional goals are identified - goals that might be developed and documented during exercises similar to those presented on the DVD.
Important issues that relate to each application are discussed throughout the DVD and book.
Text information that appears during the DVD is repeated in this book for easy review.
Additionally, Kris Butler’s “Points to Ponder” provide bulleted comments and clarification relating to each therapeutic exercise shown throughout the DVD.
The book also contains information, identified as “sidebars,” relating to issues that are not addressed, or only cursorily addressed, during the DVD.
Kris Butler brings approximately 900 hours of professional contract service provider’s experience to this project. Her client population has included pediatric and adult patients who have had head injuries, spinal cord injuries, strokes, developmental disabilities, or amputations. She and her dogs have worked with physical, occupational, speech, recreational, and mental health therapists to meet treatment goals
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