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a guide for companion animal foster care providers and shelters
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color)
"'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."--
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.
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 and harder than I expected -- No, it's harder to see them go than I expected -- No, it was easier than I expected -- Yes, I knew what to expect because I grew up in a fostering family -- No, the organization hasn't provided enough support -- No, it's taking animals longer to be adopted than I expected -- No, I thought I would have more say about the adopters -- No, it has upset my household more than I expected -- I didn't know what to expect -- Relationships between expectations and other variables -- Putting it all together: Modeling the human-animal bond -- Summary and key takeaways -- References -- 6 -- Dealing with the emotions of fostering: Self-care, resilience, and volunteer satisfaction -- Volunteer self-care practices -- Foster volunteer resilience -- Foster volunteer satisfaction -- The correlates of self-care practices, resilience, and satisfaction -- Volunteer traits, self-care, resilience, and satisfaction -- Relationships between self-care, resilience, and satisfaction -- Emotions, self-care, resilience, and satisfaction -- Regressions: Self-care, resilience, and satisfaction -- Self-care -- Resilience -- Satisfaction -- Path analysis: Handling the emotions of fostering -- Summary and key takeaways -- References -- 7 -- Summary and implications for practice -- Answering the research questions -- What is the nature of the human-animal bond between volunteers and their foster animals? -- 5058 What are the impacts of motivations, the human-animal bond, and human emotions (reactions to loss, resiliency, self-care) o ... -- Can self-care practices and resilience reduce stress among fosters and increase their satisfaction? -- What are the most effective ways to manage the emotional stress that accompanies foster caregiving? -- How can awareness of the emotional issues related to fostering help animal shelters and rescues promote the health of their ... -- Summarizing key takeaways -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Volunteer satisfaction and organizational policies -- Support requested by foster volunteers -- Foster volunteers processes, policies, and support -- Relationship between volunteer satisfaction and shelter/rescue policies -- Other implications for practice -- Recruitment of foster volunteers -- Motivations for fostering -- Attachment to foster animals -- Positive fostering mindset -- Coping with/managing grief -- Self-care -- Resilience -- Volunteer satisfaction -- Limitations and future research -- Postlude -- References -- A: Surveys -- Survey of shelter and rescue foster programs -- Research participant information and consent form -- Brief summary -- What you will be asked to do -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Your rights to participate, say no, or withdraw -- Contact information -- Foster care volunteer survey: Pedigree -- Shelter animals count foster survey -- Brief summary -- What you will be asked to do -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Your rights to participate, say no, or withdraw -- Contact information -- B -- Open ended responses, what fostering means to me -- C-Reduced regressions: Chapter 6 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- V -- Back Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.