How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions 1st Edition

Your Guide to Equine-Assisted Interventions

This book gives clinicians and researchers an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses. Using an autoethnographic approach, the authors describe, deconstruct, and analyze personal experiences as clients during an equine-assisted intervention, providing a unique perspective on the field.

Key Features

• Intervention Theory: Chapters introduce the concept of intervention theory, present a theory of the problem (what the client comes with), theories explaining the intervention (what is done during a session), and theories of change (what happens in the mind of a client).
  
  
• Autoethnographic Approach: The authors describe, deconstruct, and analyze personal experiences as clients during an equine-assisted intervention, offering a unique and personal perspective on the field.
  
  
• Practical Application: Practitioners will come away from this book with an increased understanding of what their clients are thinking both in and out of session. Researchers will have an explanatory theory from which to draw testable hypotheses.
• Unique Perspective: The authors present and apply a unique intervention theory by linking it to the thoughts and experiences of clients in and after a session.