Animal Assisted Therapy Essay

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Why should India also have animal assisted therapy/ service dog training program to help the mentally and physically challenged?

Hithesh Reddy P

S.P.Jain University of global management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3
1 RESEARCH QUESTION 4
1.1 AIM/OBJECTIVE OF THE REPORT 4
2 RESEARCH APPROACH 5
3 LITERATURE REVIEW 5
4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 7
5 RESEARCH DESIGN 8
6 SAMPLING 9
7 DATA COLLECTION 9
8 APPENDIX 10
9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11

Introduction

The dependency or relationship between “Man and animal” surpasses just the need of survival. The bonds made between human and animal has a huge positive impact on humans mentally and physically.
Now after allot of study scientifically and theoretically “Animal–assisted therapy” …show more content…

So that we get an idea on how to go about starting a NPO in India to help people in need of such programs.

Common questions asked for all three groups of people:-
1) May I conduct an interview on regards of AAT/ADS?
2) Sir/mam can this interview be tape recorded just for over reference and the recording won’t be published? Questions for people undergone/undergoing Animal – assisted therapy: -

1) May I know why you were/are in therapy?
2) Can you tell me in detail the type of therapy and the name of the animal that helped/Is helping you with it?
3) What is kind of impact is/did the therapy having on you?

Questions for people with assistive dogs: -

1) How does the process of applying for an assistive dog take place?
2) What is the name of your assistive dog?
3) How has he helped you to become more independent?

Questions for organizations that have animal – assisted therapy & assistive dog programs: -

1) Between what age spans are assistive dogs trained in their specific tasks before being given a home?
2) What are criteria’s that you have to consider before selecting the right owner for the

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