Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Coaching: An Evidence-Based Framework - Softcover

Liefooghe, Andreas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367333597 ISBN 13: 9780367333591

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Based on over a decade of sustained longitudinal research with a broad range of different user groups, Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Coaching: An Evidence-Based Framework is an essential guide which offers both theoretical foundations and practical models for working with horses in psychotherapy and coaching.

While not a panacea for distress and difficulties, the connections that humans find with horses can become a catalyst for deeper self-knowledge. By de-centring the human subject and placing the horse in the middle of the investigation, the ways in which humans make sense of themselves can be explored and more easily understood. Drawing on this wide spectrum of different client groups, the book features intervention studies with expelled teenagers, adults in addiction recovery programmes, children diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, people suffering from trauma and mental health problems, prisoners and even multi-national corporations wanting culture change. The practice of using horses in a psychological intervention is thoroughly scrutinised throughout, with ways of establishing successful change documented and assessed.

Liefooghe’s analysis of these studies builds up to provide a comprehensive, evidence-based framework for equine-assisted psychotherapy and coaching. This essential book offers psychotherapists, coaches and all those who work in a helping capacity a clear insight into what horses can and cannot do in a therapeutic role.

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About the Author

Andreas Liefooghe, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Leadership at Sasin, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, a psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London for the past two decades, and a psychotherapist in private practice. A life-long horseman, he founded Operation Centaur in 2005 with the aim of providing a sound theoretical and empirical base for the practice of using horses for therapeutic purposes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367333597
• ISBN 13: 9780367333591
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138