Excerpt from our professional seminar
Dogs live in the here and now, they live for the moment. Dogs are honest.. Dogs respect seniority and realize that their mature members have much to teach. Dogs communicate constantly and effectively with every member of their group is at all times completely informed about the moods and needs of each member, and their present situation in their environment.
They thrive in social enviorments, respond to praise, play and food, want to please, and have empathy through instinct that we have only begun to fathom.
Rehabilitation and healing with dogs offers many benefits beyond traditional forms of therapy. By targeting motion, endurance, strength, mobility, cognitive skills and many other areas a therapist can use Therapy Dogs,qualified in therapy support, to focus on each patients goals.
There has been much research regarding hospital environments and how the level of self-esteem and well-being of an individual can affect the rate at which people heal or recover. People in hospitals, nursing homes or other institutions can feel stressed out, bored or isolated” due to their environments. , Many human problems deal with situations that can be remedied in ways other than medicine. Individuals underestimate the joy and relaxation found in other activities including jogging, gardening or the stress relieving and health benefiting presence of and interactions with animals.
Animals used in therapy should also be approached with a different attitude than either traditional physical or mental therapies.Animals used in therapy protocal is not always able to address all aspects of therapy that traditional therapys are able to. It is for this that animal therapy, in addition to regular therapies is the most effective.
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