Pets and mental health /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cusack, Odean
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Haworth Press, [1988]
Subjects:	Animals, Domestic. Bonding, Human-Pet. Psychotherapy > methods.

Table of Contents:

Pet-facilitated therapy: an introduction
The human-animal bond
Why we love our pets: a naturalistic/psychoanalytical approach
Why we love our pets: a learning theory perspective
Pets and children
Pets and adolescents
Pets in the Family
Pets and the elderly
Tiffany: portrait of a canine cotherapist
Prison Pets
The veterinarian as human psychologist
The death of a pet
Pet-facilitated therapy for the physically challenged
Appendix: organizations involved in pet therapy and research into the human-animal bond