Animal Therapy Benefits

Animal Therapy Benefits

Katlyn Schoelkopf

MAT 540: Statistical Concepts and Research

Professor Hapka

March 18, 2013

Animal Therapy Benefits

Many children and adults undergo many different types of therapy every day. One of the most successful methods for all ages is animal therapy. This method is a popular choice and works for many different therapy forms, and also with every age group from young children to grown adults. By allowing someone therapy animals you are giving them someone that is there to bond with them throughout the whole process; whether the process is daily, weekly, or monthly, they have someone that is reliable and there for them one hundred percent of the time. Hospitals all over are starting to adopt pet therapy for many different disorders and therapy sessions in patients because they are seeing the success rates and statistical data behind the research.

There tend to be different types of therapy sessions where animal therapy is more beneficial to the patients. Therapy animals come in all different types and species; ranging from dogs, cats and birds, to snakes, fish and lizards as well. Every patient has their story, and many of them were negative especially when it came to therapy sessions, however in more recent studies animal therapy is allowing those patients a successful and comfortable way to address their individual needs. When you looking to the animal therapy industry, there are many studies out there for many different needs that people wouldn’t even know existed. Many books have also been written on the amazing discoveries they have made just based on research; one which is Saved: Rescued Animals and the Lives They Transform by Karin Winegar. This information is important for research because every time you take data it helps to give you a sample median of your total population. There is no way you can ever collect data from one hundred percent of the population, but by taking random sampling, you can get a...