Animals Conncecting People to People: Insights Into Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Activities

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  • Caroline B. Schaffer Tuskegee University

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In this narrative the author reflects on the interactions she has seen between nursing home residents and the veterinary medical students and their behavior-tested and health-screened pets who have participated in Tuskegee University's PUPS Program that she has supervised for 17 years. She concludes that the magic that drives this labor-intensive and highly emotional program world-wide is not the human-animal bond but the human-animal-human bond.

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Schaffer, C. B. (2014). Animals Conncecting People to People: Insights Into Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Activities. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 15(1), 42–45. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/856

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