Assessing a Structured, Goal-Oriented, Animal-Assisted Therapy Program among Youth with Socioemotional Problems: A Pilot Study of Feasibility, Acceptability, and Initial Efficacy

评估有社会情感问题的青少年的结构化、目标导向、动物辅助治疗计划：可行性、可接受性和初步疗效的试点研究

• 批准号: 10533210
• 负责人: KRISTEN C. JACOBSON
• 金额: $ 24.6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-16 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10533210
• 关键词: Acute; Adult; Ambulatory Care; Animals; Area; Behavior; Behavior Disorders; Behavioral; Canis familiaris; Caring; Chicago; Child; Computers; Education; Educational Activities; Educational Curriculum; Emotional; Emotional disorder; Enrollment; Family; Feasibility Studies; Goals; Happiness; Informal Social Control; Intervention; Investigation; Lead; Measures; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Neurosciences; Outcome; Outcome Study; Outpatients; Patient Self-Report; Pilot Projects; Play; Problem behavior; Process; Psychiatry; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials; Recovery; Reporting; Residential Treatment; Sampling; Self Efficacy; Social Behavior; Structure; Testing; Therapeutic; Therapeutic Effect; Training; Training Activity; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; Youth; abuse neglect; aged; animal-assisted therapy; base; design; efficacy evaluation; emotion regulation; emotional behavior; feasibility testing; follow-up; improved outcome; instrument; intervention program; neurocognitive test; positive mood; primary outcome; programs; self esteem; skills; social; traditional therapy; treatment as usual; treatment center

PROJECT SUMMARY Over the past several years there has been an increase in the use of animal-assisted activities (AAA) and animal-assisted therapies (AAT) aimed at treating youth with social, emotional, and behavioral problems. To date, however, there is limited empirical investigation of whether these programs have additional therapeutic effects beyond the use of traditional therapies. Moreover, many AAA/AAT program are unstructured or use animals as an adjunct to the therapy process. In contrast the Canine Recovery & Care Canine-Assisted Therapy curriculum, developed by the Chicago-based Canine-Therapy Corps organization, is an 8- to10-week program of structured, goal-oriented activities focused specifically on dog training. This program has been implemented in several populations of vulnerable youth and adults, including a program that has been in place for over 10 years at Lawrence Hall’s residential Child and Family Treatment Center (CFTC) which provides acute levels of care and a valued placement option when abused and neglected youth need residential treatment to stabilize their behaviors. The CFTC is designed to treat youth with severe emotional behaviors, and the Recovery & Care program is one of several of CFTC’s alternative therapeutic approaches. The goals of this pilot project are to: 1) test for initial efficacy of the Recovery & Care Canine-Assisted Therapy program among 36 youth from Lawrence Hall, and 2) test the feasibility, acceptability, and short-term efficacy of expanding the program to a group of 36 youth currently in outpatient treatment for social, emotional, and behavioral problems. Results from this project will provide preliminary evidence of whether a structured, goal- oriented intervention program focused on dog training activities has direct impact on increasing youth emotional self-regulation, impulse control, and self-efficacy, which are important targets for intervention among youth with a wide range mental health problems. If successful, this project could lead to a larger, randomized control clinical trials study that tests the longitudinal impact of the program and could further lead to national dissemination of the Recovery & Care curriculum as an alternative therapeutic approach.

项目摘要 在过去的几年中，动物辅助活动的使用（AAA）和 动物辅助疗法（AAT）旨在治疗社会，情感和行为问题的青年。到 然而，日期对这些计划是否有其他疗法的实证研究有限 不仅使用传统疗法的影响。此外，许多AAA/AAT程序是非结构化的或使用的 动物作为治疗过程的辅助。相反，犬恢复和护理犬辅助 由芝加哥犬科动物组织开发的治疗课程是8至10周 专门针对狗训练的结构化，面向目标的活动的计划。这个程序已经 在几个脆弱的青年和成人中实施 在劳伦斯·霍尔（Lawrence Hall）的居民儿童和家庭治疗中心（CFTC）的10多年 当被虐待和被忽视的青年需求居住时，急性护理和有价值的安置选择 治疗以稳定其行为。 CFTC旨在以严重的情感行为对待青年， 恢复与护理计划是CFTC的几种替代治疗方法之一。目标 该试点项目的内容是：1）测试恢复和护理犬辅助治疗计划的初始效率 在劳伦斯·霍尔（Lawrence Hall）的36名青年中，2）测试 将该计划扩展到目前正在接受社会，情感和情感和 行为问题。该项目的结果将提供初步证据表明是否有结构化的目标 - 注重狗训练活动的面向干预计划对增加青年的直接影响 情绪自我调节，冲动控制和自我效能感，这是干预的重要目标 具有广泛心理健康问题的年轻人。如果成功，该项目可能会导致更大，随机的 对照临床试验研究测试该计划的纵向影响，并可能进一步导致国家 将恢复与护理课程传播为另一种治疗方法。