- 410 pages
- English
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Integrating Horses into Healing
About This Book
Written by experts and founders in the world of equine assisted services (EAS), Integrating Horses into Healing: A Comprehensive Guide to Equine Assisted Services is an all-inclusive, hands-on guide for any practitioner, researcher, or student interested in EAS. The book provides a wealth of knowledge, including perspectives from therapy and coaching practitioners, equine professionals, veterinarians, researchers, clients, board members, and founders of the EAS industry. These diverse perspectives offer a depth and insight that make this a go-to guide for EAS practitioners and researchers. The focus of the book is on the ethical incorporation of equines into different therapy modalities. The well-being of the equine as well as the practitioner team is addressed, as well as sustainability and health within a for-profit and non-profit structure.
- Offers ethical practices for integrating equine assisted services into therapies, coaching, and other services.
- Provides a foundational introduction to the benefits and practices of equine assisted services
- Discusses business and legal considerations for EAS ventures
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Biography
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Natural therapeutic aspects of horses
- Chapter 2. The evolution of equine-assisted services (EAS): horses are good for people
- Chapter 3. Horse Speak and Partnership
- Chapter 4. Relational Equine-Partnered Counseling (REPC)
- Chapter 5. An in-depth approach to relational work with equines: Natural Lifemanship
- Chapter 6. Breathing into relationships: the HERD Institute approach to equine-facilitated psychotherapy
- Chapter 7. Side-to-side astride: the benefits and challenges of equine mounted work in trauma processing
- Chapter 8. Blended therapy modalities in equine-assisted psychotherapy: integrating equine-engaged internal family systems (EE-IFS) and equine-connected eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EC-EMDR)
- Chapter 9. Medical therapy (OT, PT, SLP) enhanced with hippotherapy
- Chapter 10. The Equus Effect: a road to regulation through equine-assisted learning
- Chapter 11. Serving those who served ⌠and still serve
- Chapter 12. Beyond mind and body: spiritual connections in equine-assisted services
- Chapter 13. Be the Horse's Advocate
- Chapter 14. Enhancing the horses voice: incorporating Horse Speak into psychotherapy
- Chapter 15. Exploring socio-emotional and cognitive development in horses
- Chapter 16. Not just horsing around: an equine professional's guiding principles
- Chapter 17. The role of the equine professional in equine-assisted services
- Chapter 18. Heart centered horsemanship: the Horse trainer's perspective in EAS
- Chapter 19. A holistic perspective: My transformative journey through Natural Lifemanship
- Chapter 20. Are we there yet? The ongoing journey of Healing for the healers
- Chapter 21. Interventions and strategies toward mental health and wellbeing for professionals
- Chapter 22. Starting or restarting an equine-assisted services organization: Donât put the cart before the horse
- Chapter 23. The key to a successful non-profit board
- Chapter 24. How do you know it works: Evaluating equine-assisted service programs
- Chapter 25. Bridging research and practice in equine-assisted services
- Chapter 26. Conclusions and future directions
- Index