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Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs

By: Sandra B. Barker,Rebecca A. Vokes,Randolph T. Barker

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Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs

By: Sandra B. Barker,Rebecca A. Vokes,Randolph T. Barker

Growing literature around the benefits of animal-assisted intervention (AAI) spurs health care professionals and administrators to start new programs. Yet the trend also raises questions of how best to begin and run successful AAI programs—under what circumstances, with what staff, and within what guidelines. Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, and evaluate AAI programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences and research from more than fifteen years of leading the Center for Human-Animal Interaction in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the authors discuss both best practices and best reasons for establishing AAI programs. For thorough consideration, the text explores benefits from a variety of perspectives, including how AAI can improve patient experience, provide additional career development for staff, and contribute favorably to organizational culture and to the reputation of the facility in the surrounding community. Developed for administrators as well as for volunteers and staff, Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings includes practical, case-based examples for easy comprehension and offers an accompanying online user-friendly template that can be adapted to develop practice-specific training, evaluation, and procedure manuals.

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Purdue University Press

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1612495389

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9781612495385

Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala

Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes

By: Sandra Friend,John Keatley

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Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala

Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes

By: Sandra Friend,John Keatley

While polar opposites in many ways - hip college town versus retiree mecca - both Gainesville and Ocala, only 35 miles apart, share a love of the outdoors. Student clubs from the University of Florida hike the same trails as Volksmarch groups from the Villages, enjoying wilderness immersion in the Ocala National Forest and scrambles on rugged terrain along the Cross Florida Greenway. With several hundred miles of trails throughout the region to choose from, Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala helps you find the best. Authored by Florida hiking expert and long-time Ocala resident Sandra Friend, with 40-year Eagle Scout and Florida Trail Association life member John Keatley, this handy guide provides a fresh perspective on the region's ever-expanding array of hiking trails. Find urban places for reflection like Sholom Park, a carefully manicured woodlands in a retirement community, and Bivens Arm Nature Park, surrounding a marsh in Gainesville; both feature inspirational quotes and places to relax along their trails. Explore the vast longleaf pine flatwoods of the Ocala National Forest on the Florida Trail near Lake Delancy and the shady swamp forests of Goethe State Forest along the Big Cypress Trail. See more alligators than you've ever seen in your life in the home of the Gators along the La Chua Trail at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. Covering more than 35 hikes across a three-county region, all within an hour's drive of either city, Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala gives you a reason to get outdoors now. Hikes are rated and highlighted according to their strengths from five perspectives: scenery, trail conditions, good for children, difficulty, and solitude. Author recommendations for best hikes in other categories - including wildlife watching, ancient trees, Florida Trail segments, geology, kid-friendly, and dog-friendly hikes - make it easy to choose an adventure at a glance. Add in Sandra Friend's extensive knowledge of habitats, wildlife, wildflowers, and local history, and you'll be glad to have Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala as your guide to exploring the region's outdoors.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897326156

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9780897326155

Creating the Multiage Classroom

By: Sandra Stone

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Creating the Multiage Classroom

By: Sandra Stone

From philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluation forms, this complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom provides practical answers to teachers', administrators', and parents' questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation. Reproducible forms and assessment tools ease use. Grades K-6. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 277 pages.

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Good Year Books

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1596470240

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Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs

By: Sandra B. Barker,Rebecca A. Vokes,Randolph T. Barker

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A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs

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Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala

Five-Star Trails: Gainesville & Ocala

Creating the Multiage Classroom

Creating the Multiage Classroom

Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings

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