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The effect of animal-assisted therapy on children's stress during hospitalization [dissertation]
Contributor(s):: Tsai, Chia-Chun
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Endangered animals in wildlife tourism : A study of young female traveller attitudes
Contributor(s):: Jenna Jussila
This thesis is built around the discussion of wildlife welfare and animal ethics in a tourism setting. Although not being properly explored by academics, the topic of ethical wildlife use in tourism has been increasingly raised in social media. Websites such as www.tourismconcern.org.uk and...
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Impact of animal assisted therapy on troubled teenage girls
| Contributor(s):: Drishti, Goenka
This study explored the impact of an animal assisted therapy (AAT) group programme on the level of social-emotional competence of female adolescent survivors of abuse who were receiving treatment at a residential facility. By adopting the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach...
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How Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy Addresses Military Sexual Trauma among Female Veterans: Systematic Review
| Contributor(s):: Claire Niessen-Derry
There were roughly 5,061 reports of MST since the Department of Defense’s (DOD) fiscal year of 2012. The DOD believes that MST is vastly under reported and estimates that less than 20% of sexual assaults have been reported over the past seven years. The research question for this systematic...
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New perspectives on dolphin whistles: Evaluating signal context, categorization and memory
| Contributor(s):: Bruck, Jason Neal
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The connection between domestic violence and animal cruelty in Puerto Rico: An anthropological study
| Contributor(s):: Vazquez Soto, Nancy Y.
Violence against women is one of Puerto Rico’s most critical social problems and for this reason, anthropological thought is critically necessary. Some women in Puerto Rico are vulnerable to situations of violence and control through domestic violence while their animals become involved in...
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Pets, intimate partner violence, and the abuser's perspective
| Contributor(s):: Stevenson, Rochelle
Domestic violence remains a serious social issue. In North America, millions of women are victimized each year, and many of these women are victims of violence at the hand of their intimate partners. A small but growing body of research on domestic violence has shown that companion animals are...
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Animal abuse as an early predictor of violent crime later in life: A comparison of male and female inmates
| Contributor(s):: Connelly, Heather Joy
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Women and Animals in Affiliative Relationship: Healing Characteristics of the Animal Human Bond
| Contributor(s):: Pamela Feeney
Gender is a basic organizing principle that profoundly shapes material conditions of women's lives. Ecofeminism posits an association and joint oppression among women, animals, and nature, while feminist methodologies expose previously hidden aspects of women's reality. Despite the...
