A "Pawsitive" Influence of Animals in Long-Term Care Facilities: Animal-Assisted Therapy at St. Peter Regional Treatment Center
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| Abstract |
The St. Peter Regional Treatment Center (SPRTC) provides secure, residential, multi-disciplinary treatment services, including psychosocial rehabilitation and skill enhancement, to individuals civilly committed as Mental Ill and Dangerous by the State of Minnesota. Since the treatment process is so comprehensive at SPRTC, patients may spend several years receiving in-patient treatment. Since SPRTC does not currently have an animal-assisted therapy (AAT) program, the purpose of this project was to research existing AAT programs being implemented with similar patient populations as a way to inform SPRTC staff of possible programs they could implement on their campus. The overall goal of this project was to collect information about these other programs, compare these to the criteria SPRTC specified they wanted in their own AAT program, then recommend possible programs that SPRTC could successfully implement with their population. |
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Mason N McLary HABRI Central |
| Date | 2010 |
| Publisher | Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| Location of Publication | Mankato, Minnesota |
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| URL | https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/499/ |
| Language | English |
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