Pet Therapy Books & Videos
For nursing home
residents, AIDS patients, people with emotional
or physical handicaps, and even prisoners, contact
with animals can help lower blood pressure,
release endorphins, and achieve specific treatment
or program goals.
Purchase
PET ASSISTED THERAPY
A Loving Intervention and an Emerging Profession
Leading to a Friendlier, Healthier, and More Peaceful World Pearl Salotto, B.A., M.P.
Purchase Companion Animals in Human Health by Cindy C. Wilson (Editor),
Dennis C. Turner (Editor)
Explores how
animals affect the physical, mental, emotional,
social, functional, and general health
and well-being of their human companions.
Purchase
You Have A Visitor: Observations on Pet Visitation and Therapy by Renee Lamm Esordi, Alan M. Beck
Purchase The
Healing Power of Pets: Harnessing the
Ability of Pets to Make and Keep People
Happy and Healthy by Marty Becker, Danelle Morton
(Contributor)
Purchase
Creature
Comfort: Animals That Heal by
Bernie Graham
Purchase Between
Pets and People: The Importance of Animal
Companionship by Alan M. Beck, Aaron Honori
Katcher, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Foreword)
Purchase Therapy
Dogs: Training Your Dog to Help Others by
Kathy Diamond Davis, Kathy Diamond-Davis
Purchase Wanted:
Animal Volunteers by Mary R. Burch (Author)
Purchase
Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Theoretical Foundations and Guidelines for
Practice by Aubrey H. Fine (Editor)
Additional Recommended
Books
Love
on a Leash
Giving Joy to Others through Pet Therapy
By: Liz Palika ISBN # 09 31866 76 6
K9
Therapy Groups Organization & Management
By: J. Root
1.800.777.7257
Therapy
Dogs: Training Your Dogs to Reach Others
By: Kathy Diamond Davis
Copyright: 1992
Volunteering
with your Pet
How to get involved in Animal Assisted Therapy
with any kind of pet
By: Mary R. Burch, Ph.D
Copyright: 1996
Videos
Nexus
Media International
3025 West Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310.264.5566 www.nexusstudios.com
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information and purchase products for use in nursing
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resources include sensory stimulation products,
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