Could Animal-Assisted Therapy Help to Reduce Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry?

For psychiatric patients, compulsory admission and coercive measures can constitute distressing and sometimes traumatizing experiences. As a consequence, clinicians aim at minimizing such procedures. At the same time, they need to ensure high levels of safety for patients, staff and the public. In o...

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Main Authors: Sonja Widmayer, Stefan Borgwardt, Undine E. Lang, Christian G. Huber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00794/full