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Psychometric Evaluation of the Comfort from Companion Animals Scale in a Sexual and Gender Minority Sample
Contributor(s):: Tomlinson, Camie A., Pittman, Sarah K., Murphy, Jennifer L., Matijczak, Angela, McDonald, Shelby E.
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Handlers' Expectations and Perceived Compatibility regarding the Partnership with Their First Guide Dogs
| Contributor(s):: Lloyd, J., Budge, C., Stafford, K.
The main function of a guide dog is as a mobility aid, but they can also fulfill psychosocial roles as companions, social facilitators, and objects/providers of affection. This study examined the outcome of 50 peoples' (handlers) partnerships with their first guide dog. Overall compatibility...
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The Human-Animal Bond and Attachment in Animal-Assisted Interventions in Counseling
| Contributor(s):: Ariann E. Robino
Mental health practitioners who incorporate animal-assisted interventions into clinical practice harness the human-animal bond for therapeutic benefit. According to the Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling Competencies, practitioners have a duty to understand the complex relational processes...
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The Veteran-Canine Bond: Implications and Experiences with Using Animals to Alleviate Psychological Distress
| Contributor(s):: Chace, Tara
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The capacity for the human-companion animal bond: Dissociation, history of trauma, personality characteristics, and attachment styles
| Contributor(s):: Olivia Wu
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Prison Animal Training Programs: Attachment Theory as an Explanation for Changes in Inmate Behavior
| Contributor(s):: Sue D. Weaver
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Exploring the Role of Playfulness with Canine Companions in Coping with Stress: How Men Are Impacted by Human–Animal Interaction Through Calling on a Memory of Play
| Contributor(s):: Mary Harlinger, Chris Blazina
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"Dog Moms" Use Authoritative Parenting Styles
| Contributor(s):: Shelley Volsche, Peter Gray
Findings in human-animal interaction often includes the benefits of the relationship; however, pet relinquishment persists as a core issue within the field. Considering mismatches could be an explanation about relinquishment, this study was performed with the aim to design and to evaluate...
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The role of therapy and service animals in the lives of persons with disabilities
| Contributor(s):: Fine, A. H.
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Pet loss and continuing bonds: An examination of grief reactions in adults and children
| Contributor(s):: Maxwell D. Rappoport
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Enactive Anthrozoology: toward an integrative theoretical model for understanding the therapeutic relationships between humans and animals
| Contributor(s):: Theo Verheggen, Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers, Jannes Eshuis
Anthrozoology continues to advance forward in research and in professionalization of animal assisted interventions. What the discipline is still lacking, however, is a unified theoretical framework "explaining how and why relationships between humans and animals are potentially...
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An evaluation of pet owners' attachment style and the human-animal bond
| Contributor(s):: Pezzini, Elena
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Men and their dogs: A new understanding of man's best friend
| Contributor(s):: Blazina, Christopher, Kogan, Lori R.
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Exploring the existence and potential underpinnings of dog–human and horse–human attachment bonds
| Contributor(s):: Payne, Elyssa, DeAraugo, Jodi, Bennett, Pauleen, McGreevy, Paul
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Exploring the existence and potential underpinnings of dog-human and horse-human attachment bonds
| Contributor(s):: Payne, E., DeAraugo, J., Bennett, P., McGreevy, P.
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Stress reduction and attachment in military veterans: Benefits of the veteran-canine bond
| Contributor(s):: Bradshaw-Scott, Tammy K.
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Investigating the relationship between assistance dogs and their owners with physical disabilities: Complex affection or simple attachment?
| Contributor(s):: Stewart, Dawn
This study explores the bond between persons with physical or perceptual disabilities an~d their Assistance Dogs. It was hypothesized that these relationships would be different from relationships between pet dogs and owners, and that the bonds may resemble attachment relationships. The project...
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Understanding and quantifying the roles of perceived social support, pet attachment, and adult attachment in adult pet owners' sense of well-being
| Contributor(s):: Langston, Stephanie Cecile
Researchers have extolled the benefits of pet ownership. Most of the studies which have been published lack a theoretical lens through which to conceptualize the human-animal bond. Attachment theory offers a framework for understanding the connection between humans and pets. This study applied...
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The lived experiences of the effects of companion animal ownership on adaptation to conjugal grief: A phenomenological study
| Contributor(s):: Gabel, Mark F.
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Man's clearest mirror: Exploring how the human-animal bond affects men in a relational way
| Contributor(s):: Bartone, Anne S.