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  title info:
    title: Fostering and the human-animal bond
    sub title: a guide for companion animal foster care providers and shelters
  name:
    name part: Reese, Laura A. (Laura Ann)
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: "'Fostering and the Human-Animal Bond: A Guide for Companion Animal Foster Care Providers and Shelters' delves into the profound connection between humans and animals in animal fostering. Faced with capacity challenges, shelters often struggle to maintain animal health and welfare, sometimes leading to euthanasia. By examining various facets of the fostering experience, it provides essential information to improve volunteer recruitment and retention, ultimately benefiting both the animals and those who care for them. This comprehensive guide, written by an animal welfare expert, integrates interdisciplinary research from animal behavior, welfare, volunteerism, social work, and psychology. The book explores methods to enhance the emotional well-being of foster volunteers, their coping mechanisms, and the overall welfare of the animals, making it an invaluable resource for shelter professionals, foster coordinators, researchers, and students in related fields with its practical advice and insights to support and improve the fostering experience."--
  table of contents: Introduction. Fostering and the human-animal bond : a guide for companion animal foster care providers and shelters -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Foster volunteers and nature of the fostering experience -- The emotions of fostering -- Dealing with the emotions of fostering : self-care, resilience, and volunteer satisfaction -- Summary and implications for practice -- Appendix A. Surveys -- Appendix B. Open ended responses, what fostering means to me -- AppendixC. Reduced regressions.
  table of contents: Introduction. Fostering and the human-animal bond: A guide for companion animal foster care providers and shelters -- Prelude -- The need for foster care -- Research questions -- Organization of the book -- 2 -- Literature review -- The role of fostering -- Motivations for volunteering and fostering -- Attachment to pets -- Lessons from the human foster care literature -- Human personality and relationships with animals: Resilience and self-care -- Volunteer satisfaction -- Summary and key takeaways -- References -- 3 -- Methodology -- Survey construction and administration -- Participants -- Survey -- Measures and indicators -- Volunteer traits -- Motivations -- Nature of foster service -- Attachment to pets -- Positive fostering mindset -- Foster parent reaction to loss: Grief and coping -- Foster volunteer self-care -- Adoption of fosters -- Resilience -- Satisfaction -- Analytic methods -- Characteristics of respondents -- Foster volunteer respondents -- Responding shelter traits -- Summary and key takeaways -- References -- 4 -- Foster volunteers and nature of the fostering experience -- Motivations to foster -- Other volunteer activities of foster care providers -- Tenure and frequency of fostering -- Types of animals fostered -- Summary of the effects of different volunteer traits -- Exploring the connections in the explanatory model -- Motivations for fostering -- Other volunteer activities -- Foster tenure and frequency -- Types of animals fostered -- Summary and key takeaways -- References -- 5 -- The emotions of fostering -- Attachment to foster animals -- Reactions to separation from foster animals: Loss and coping --The importance of mindset on grief and coping responses -- Volunteer traits and the human-animal bond -- Expectations about fostering -- Yes, it's just as wonderful as I expected -- No, it's even more wonderful than I expected -- No, it's much harder than I expected, they are in much rougher shape! -- Yes, and no, it's both more rewarding an…
  note: Laura A. Reese.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Foster care of animals
  subject:
    topic: Human-animal relationships
  subject:
    topic: Élevage à la main
  classification: QL85
  classification: 636.08/32
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fostering and the human-animal bond
    name:
      name part: Reese, Laura A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1490364438
  identifier: 9780443438332
  identifier: 0443438331
  identifier: 9780443438325
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 250825
    record change date: 20260327191506.2
    record identifier: in00005775990
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng