Handbooks

“Manual de educación y manejo de perros y gatos para programas de Terapia y Educación Asistida por Animales de Compañía"
(Handbook on the training and handling of dogs and cats in Pet Assisted Therapy programmes)

by Jaume Fatjó i Ríos y Xavier Manteca i Vilanova, from the Clinical Ethology Department at the Veterinary Hospital of the School of Veterinary Science at the Barcelona Autonomous University (UAB).          
This work has a clearly practical orientation. It provides information concerning the behaviour of dogs and cats so that the professionals involved in those programmes might be knowledgeable about how to handle the animals they are going to use and thus improve the efficiency of the therapeutic process

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“Manuales de evaluación de la terapia asistida por animales: I Gerontología"
(Handbooks on pet assisted therapy evaluation: I. Gerontology).

by Jesús Martínez Alcalde, professor of Clinical Psychology at the Madrid Autonomous University (UAM), and Juan Flecha Martínez, a doctor and professor collaborating with the Department of Psychiatry at the Madrid Antonomous University (UAM).
This work proposes to help professionals working in the field of gerontology to implement programmes of pet assisted therapy, as well as to provide them with a greater scientific rigorousness.

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“Manuales de evaluación de la terapia asistida por animales: II Autismo
(Handbooks on pet assisted therapy evaluation: II. Autism),

by Mª Jesús Serrano Ripoll, from the Department of Psychology at the Balearic Islands University (UIB).
The use of dogs and cats in the medical attention given to autistic children has proved to have very beneficial results according to all the experimental work carried out in Spain as well as in other countries. The objective of this manual is to help professionals working in the field of mental health to diagnose their patients’ condition accurately. Besides, it contains several questionnaires that serve to measure the efficiency of the PATE programmes.

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