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USE OF ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY/ACTIVITIES IN SOCIAL FIELD
HOŠKOVÁ, Jitka
In my thesis I occupy with using of animal assisted therapy/activities in social field, its methods and application. The aim was to describe the kinds of animal therapy, describe various ways and methods of using animals in therapy, explain the basic concepts and the views of clients and therapists to benefit animal therapy. The theoretical part deals with basic concepts, types of animal therapy, mostly animal assisted therapy, specially trained dogs and hippotherapy and other less advanced types of rehabilitation with the help of animals. In the practical part, I use interviews and observation investigated how animal therapy carried out in three selected social facilities in the České Budějovice.
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The accounte of Animal Assisted Therapy for client with hearing-aid and cochlear implant
FRAŇKOVÁ, Zuzana
The thesis deals with a issue of significance of canistherapy for clients with hearing aid and cochlear implants. Canistherapy, as one of the forms of the zoo-therapy, represents a supporting rehabilitation method based on the contact of the man with the dog and their positive interaction. The theoretical part of the thesis contains the topical terminology of the zoo-rehabilitation and canistherapy, where the author makes the analysis of this topic and deals with influence of the canistherapy on the client with specific defects. Within the theoretical part also the issue of a hearing handicap is defined. The target of the thesis is describing canistherapy as supporting therapeutic method for children with hearing defects. The research is focused on applying the Animal Assisted Therapy method. Based on the qualitative research, four casuistic reports were created describing the importance of the canistherapy for children the hearing defects and their family. For the research, the method of participating observation was applied, method of the analysis of documents (method of the secondary data analysis) and a half-standardized talk. As supplementing method I selected questioning (technology of an questionnaire) with open questions and photo-documentation. The research was made on children of pre-school age after the cochlear implantation coming into the Special Pedagogical Centre for Hearing Handicapped in České Budějovice. The results of the research confirmed that canistherapy influences very positively the total development of the child personality, it contributes to the development of speech as well as communication abilities and psycho-social child development. The thesis may serve as information and study material for beginning and professional canistherapeutical teams, pedagogical, special pedagogical and further professional employees and also the lay public. The information may be disseminated in the form of lectures, by creating publications, leaflets etc..
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