How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions: A Theory of Horses, Humans, and Psychotherapy

How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions provides an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses, using an autoethnographic approach to describe and analyze personal experiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 194 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Equine-Assisted Interventions: How Change Happens provides clinicians and researchers with an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses. The book is divided into chapters that introduce the concept of intervention theory, present a theory of the problem (what the client brings), theories explaining the intervention (what is done during a session), and theories of change (what happens in the mind of a client). Each theory is described in detail, and the authors use an autoethnographic approach to describe, deconstruct, and analyze personal experiences as clients during an equine-assisted intervention.

The authors then present and apply a unique intervention theory by linking it to the thoughts and experiences of clients in and after a session. This book offers practitioners a unique perspective on the field and a deeper understanding of what their clients are thinking both in and out of session. For researchers, the book provides an explanatory theory from which to draw testable hypotheses when studying interventions incorporating horses.

Overall, Equine-Assisted Interventions: How Change Happens is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the field of equine-assisted therapy and the mechanisms of change that occur during these interventions.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367538521