Teaming with Your Therapy Dog
Teaming with Your Therapy Dog by Ann R. Howie, published by Purdue University Press in 2015, is a comprehensive guide that emphasizes the importance of teamwork between therapy dog handlers and their dogs. This 161-page book is written in English and addresses the need for handlers to provide both physical and emotional support while being mindful of their own behaviors. The author presents a framework that encourages handlers to recognize how their actions can enhance their dogs’ effectiveness during therapy sessions.
Readers will find practical insights into the STEPs of Teamwork and how these principles align with the Therapy Dogs Bill of Rights. The book explores functional behavior principles that handlers can apply to their therapy dogs’ unique personalities and daily interactions. By adopting a conscious and respectful approach, handlers can strengthen their relationships with their dogs, ultimately improving the quality of their therapy work. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those involved in veterinary medicine, psychology, and animal training.
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Today’s therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Teaming with one’s dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just our dogs. This book reminds all handlers that being conscious of what we do with our dogs helps them do their best work, and also can increase the effectiveness of our visits.
Teaming with Your Therapy Dog teaches the STEPs of Teamwork and how those STEPs fit with the Therapy Dogs Bill of Rights. These general principles free handlers to apply them in their own way to their therapy dogs individual personality and work, and to everyday life at home! As the author writes, “The book explores a way of being conscious of what you do with and to your therapy dog to support him in his work. It describes functional principles of behavior you can learn and use immediately, either together as a package or independently.” Using an exciting new methodology, the author guides readers to deepen their relationship with their dogs by acting consciously and respectfully.
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