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.

项目总结 在过去的几年里，动物辅助活动(AAA)的使用有所增加 动物辅助疗法(AAT)旨在治疗有社会、情感和行为问题的年轻人。至 然而，对于这些方案是否有额外的治疗作用，目前的实证调查有限。 超越传统疗法的效果。此外，许多AAA/AAT程序是非结构化或使用 动物作为治疗过程的辅助手段。相比之下，犬只的康复和护理是由犬只协助的 由芝加哥的犬科治疗队组织开发的治疗课程为期8至10周 一项有组织的、以目标为导向的活动计划，重点放在狗的训练上。这个节目已经被 在一些弱势青年和成年人群体中实施，包括一项已经到位的方案 在劳伦斯·霍尔的寄宿儿童和家庭治疗中心(CFTC)工作了10多年，该中心提供 当受虐待和被忽视的青年需要住宿时，提供紧急照顾和宝贵的安置选择 治疗以稳定他们的行为。CFTC旨在治疗有严重情绪行为的青少年， 康复与护理计划是CFTC的几种替代治疗方法之一。目标 该试点项目的目的是：1)测试恢复和护理犬类辅助治疗计划的初步疗效 在36名来自劳伦斯·霍尔的青年中，以及2)测试了 将该计划扩大到目前正在接受社交、情感和心理治疗的36名青年 行为问题。该项目的结果将提供初步证据，表明一个结构化的、目标- 以养犬活动为重点的定向干预计划对增加青年有直接影响 情绪自我调节、冲动控制和自我效能感是干预的重要目标 青少年存在广泛的心理健康问题。如果成功，这个项目可能会导致更大的、随机的 对照临床试验研究，测试该计划的纵向影响，并可能进一步导致全国 传播康复与护理课程，作为另一种治疗方法。