Title Kaniterapijos taikymas vaikams, turintiems specialiųjų ugdymo(-si) poreikių. Kokybinė kaniterapijos užsiėmimų analizė
Translation of Title Canine therapy with children with special educational needs: qualitative and quantitative analysis of canine therapy sessions.
Authors Brazdeikienė, Liana ; Zukhbaya, Natalia ; Petraitienė, Ulijana
DOI 10.15181/tbb.v77i2.1603
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Is Part of Tiltai : socialiniai mokslai.. Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. 2017, Nr. 2 (77), p. 53-72.. ISSN 1392-3137. eISSN 2351-6569
Keywords [eng] canine therapy ; animal assisted therapy ; special educational needs ; behavioural-emotional difficulties
Abstract [eng] The qualitative and quantitative analysis of canine therapy with children with special educational needs is presented in this article. Canine therapy sessions were carried out in two groups of participants. The 1st group consisted from children with behavioural-emotional problems, the second group – consisted from children who have disability of intelligence and have diagnosis confirmed by physicians. The qualitative and quantitative analysis confirmed positive social, emotional, psychological and educational changes in both groups of children. Relatively greater changes are observed in the group of children with disability of intelligence. The parents of first group of children evaluated their behavioural-emotional difficulties before and after canine therapy sessions. There were no significant differences in mothers scores of children behavioural-emotional difficulties before and after canine therapy sessions, fathers’ scores of behavioral-emotional difficulties of children are lower after canine therapy sessions, and significantly lower are scores of anxiety / depression difficulties after canine therapy sessions.
Published Klaipėda : Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2017
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