In the course of the last centuries
the western man to you have developed one large supremacy of the rationality regarding
the instinctive losing the just harmony with its nature and the nature around to himself.
For this hour it is assisted to the demand for approach again itself and recovery from part of
many persons of this wonderful source that the man has in deepest of its being and that he has
in common with the animal: its naturalness and in particular its instinct that manifest with
the spontaneous and the immediacy of its is set in action.
The man and the animal live on the spread planet and between they, there is communicating inter-exchange.
More and more tightened it is "the familiar" tie of interaction in which the also animal
it comes considered member; it is not more a case to notice like familiar equilibriums
wavering because of the structural modifications in the members, are restored inserting
in the context of the group-family the domestic animal, which going to cover the space
left empty from the lacking element, it overwhelms it donating new interest and impulse.
Searches experience them conduct in the schools,
have evidenced that the study of the animal life favors the development of interactions,
the cooperation and the exchange of information between the children of the various classes
of one same pedagogical cycle;
from such search emerged that the children of a class who acquire acquaintances,
experiences, living, a sensibility, a way of being and a way to make to contact with a species,
an animal or a group of animals will transmit that that they have learned the children of an other class.
In the last years, it has begun to being studied and being used the animal beyond that like company,
cure, the used term in order to characterize these modalities of participation "Pet Terapy"
English call "Pet" that kind of animals to love, to grow, to caress because soft:
that is those to hold neighbors to the own person.
The love that they cure
In 1961 the doctor Boris Levinson speak for before the time about
Pet therapy in its called job "the dog like assistant".
In the 1969 Levinson taking care itself of Pet therapy with the children,
it noticed that when received in its study a child with disturbs psychical,
this headed easy towards its dog, demonstrating itself more spontaneous
and more available to interact with he.
Of it it deduced that the animal was a mediator useful to re-establish the social contacts
and it used it in systematic way in the psicoterapeutical relation with its small patients
obtaining turns out to you satisfactory.
It had noticed in fact that a child often is frightened in the communication directed with the therapist
and the presence of the animal that is facilitates it in expressing the own difficulties
communicating in indirect way and through the animal.
Moreover the child had the possibility to project on the animal the own otherwise inesprimibili feelings.
Finally all these processes happened through affective and playing exchanges with the animated ones that
they rendered appreciate the therapeutic encounter more.
In the 1981 also Samuel and Elizabeth Corson they were interested to apply to the Pet therapy this time to adults
with psychiatric problems and old in geriatrical hospitals.
They recognized that the animal then had a catalytic effect on the patient who allowed it to establish
one at first relation man-animal and subsequently also with other persons of the atmosphere.
Also for the Corson the animal is a good adjuvant, a catalyst of answers or third element of one therapeutic relation.
In 1981 the investigator Aaron Honori Katcher always studies the influence of the presence of
domestic animals on the arterial pressure.
From he turns out you of the carried out searches emerged that the pressure was lowered after the caress
of a dog or of a cat and subsequently was enough to evoke such images.
He achieved some that the sick of heart ones to us to contact with the animals they had greater
abilities to recover the health.
Moreover for Katcher the presence of animals from affection increased the longevity
and diminished the danger of diseases.
Also Michael Mc Cullach in 1981 carrying out searches on patients with cardiac insufficiencies,
endocrine disorders, disturbs gastrointestinal, enfisemi and diabetes, noticed that the emergency moves
them due to the tie with the just animal one made support more better the disease being favored
positive passing and that the anxiety lessening allowed beyond that the resumption of social contacts
also a therapeutic improvement.
In 1987 in Italy in a convention held to Milan from the SCIVAC, role comes examined the topic
"Becomes ill from company in the civilization today".
The scope of the convention is that one to try to approach the single individuals or to the groups
in way it graduates them and systematic, animals it selects
to you and it trains to you for therapeutic scope.
WHY ALL THIS?
SOME CHARACTERISTICS Of the ANIMAL THAT RENDER IT A GOOD
Co-Therapist In the INTERACTION MAN - AMBIENT
- The animal has one good ability to facilitate the interactive relationships you.
It from or takes to the initiative in speeding up the collaboration of the patient.
- He acts to istintuale level and therefore he does not put in action psychological mechanisms defensives.
Which the negation or the counterfeiting but always proposes with the world directed, true and linear relationships.
It does not interpret, counterfeits some.
- Social , loves living in company.
Many race, between which the also dolphins, they have the faculty to know to read to the body language
(expression of the ace, attitudes, para-language, prossemic) and to perceive, through the hormonal productions,
the various emotional states of the other.
- Free and spontaneous in the physical contact.
This spontaneity in the physical interactions favors and increases the stimulations of the senses.
Through the physical contact that is through the skin contact the construction of the borders
of just the necessary body and also of the psychological border to the formation of one is possible identity,
of Himself, a concrete knowledge to exist.
We do not forget that Pet in English means something of soft to caress and therefore the animal
is a good source adds them of intimate and heat.
- It loves to play.
Playing with it I animated the boys they have way to express their lively gaining some beneficial
feelings and have way to enrich their gestuale and tactile communication.
- Directly instinctive.
And therefore it evokes in the man its deeper needs, often relegates to you in an angle of the intimate one,
bringing back them to the knowledge.
- A social assistant profit.
In how much with its movements it attracts the attention of people on himself increasing the contacts between the persons.
PERSONS WHO COULD TO DO GOOD OF THE CONTACT WITH A DOMESTIC ANIMAL
- Children with disturb psychical, with symptoms from sensory deprivation,
behavioural problems and cognitive deficits you (memory, learning and guideline space-thunderstorm)
Through the game and the physical direct contact can develop with
more facility the cognitive processes sensory you and.
The contact with the animal can produce to feelings and such positive emotions to make to wish in the child
the repetition of the experience carrying it therefore to open its small world and to try
new interactions with the environment.
-Adolescent and boys with behavioural problems which had to familiar conflicts.
The interactions with dogs and cats upgrade in the boy the not oral
comunicative abilities leaving more space the emotions.
Giving more space to the emotions, the boy is facilitated in the psychological increase and the taken
one of conscience of the own ones liability.
Therefore, making oneself loaded with the requirements and the well-being of the just animal one,
the sense of the duty in more pleasant way will be able to learn living.
Moreover it will be able to learn to establish of necessary the stable and sure ties affective
for the formation of one own emergency and inner integrity.
- Persons with insufficient social interactions and difficulties of communication (old in pension, unskillful psycho-physical)
the relationship with the animal stimulates and supplies
occasion for new experiences
(walks, regarding participation to activity the animal, pole of attraction in the social contacts).
- Gotten depressed because of physical incapacities and diseases. Gotten depressed reatti to you and endogenous.
The gotten depressed ones could find the just motivation to take cure of
himself if the responsibility is taken to supply to an animal.
Moreover, poichè the gotten depressed ones has an elevated level of anxiety and auto-devaluation,
the animal could have one sure function of sedazione of the tension and supply daily confirmations in the
appraisal of himself.
- The persons who suffer from light psychological difficulties.
The vicinity of an animal helps them to sedare their anxieties
and consequently to perceive better the world around to if.
NATURAL ATTITUDES OF ANIMALS PREFERABLE IN RELATIONSHIP PSICO-THERAPEUTIC
- The meekness.
The predisposition as an example of the dog to accept
the advanced man like hierarchical.
One of the most common problems in the tie man-animal is manifested from the aggressiveness tied to the domination.
The dog being a group animal establishes dependency or domination relations through behaviors of aggressive type.
Then it can happen that some dogs do not succeed to respect "the domination assumed from the members of the
family of which they make part and therefore bark or bite".
That creates of the large problems in the interaction man-animal.
- The sociability.
The ability to become part naturally in whichever atmosphere,
to communicate with others without hesitation, fears, worries or anxiety.
- Good temperament and hardening.
The ability to react and to resist to the external impulse of whichever nature with good intensity and speed.
- Curiosity.
The ability to be interested in way of all natural to the exploration of environment and new territories.
- Vigilance.
The sensibility to perceive dangerous external situations.
- Jocularity.
- Tenderness.
Edited by Anna Maria Cupellini e Paola F.
Fonte: http://www.cavalierking.it/terapy.htm
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