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