Author(s):
J. Müller, H. Höllmer, J. Wolint, Th. Knaust, L. Cordes, H. Schulz & R.-J. Gorzka
Institution:
Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg
Title:
Possibilities and Limitations of Animal-Assisted Trauma-Focused Psychotherapeutic Interventions in a Military Context
Abstract:
Even though within current therapy research animal-assisted interventions account for a small portion only, scientific publications dealing with this topic have been issued regularly over the past few decades.(1) Moreover, animal-assisted interventions are repeatedly being discussed in popular science and alternative medical publications, mostly in a very positive way. (2) During our clinical work, too, we increasingly often receive queries about this matter from our patients. Also mental health professionals of other NATO partners report about such queries.(3) This interest in animal-assisted interventions is the reason for this paper on the possibilities and limitations of animal-assisted interventions as part of an overall trauma-focused psychotherapeutic treatment within the structures of the Bundeswehr.
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