Canisterapie - Zvíře v sociálních službách – Tvrdá Andrea (2020)

What does a dog need to be able to do canine therapy? A master who knows a lot about canine therapy! Canine therapy is – like many other therapeutic professions – based on communication, both interpersonal and, in this case, interspecies. However, the foundation of functional canine therapy is a good understanding of oneself, one's feelings, and especially one's therapeutic dogs, their limits, and ways of 'expressing' themselves. How to navigate this issue is what you will learn in this book, in which therapist Andrea Tvrdá summarizes her more than twenty years of practical experience with canine therapy, as well as everything she has read or learned about it during training and seminars. She provides a comprehensive picture of contemporary canine therapy, emphasizing the welfare of therapeutic dogs, along with plenty of practical advice for those who would like to pursue this field. Andrea Tvrdá has been actively interested in cynology since she was ten years old when she first got her own dog and began attending Svazarm (now ZKO). That was the beginning of everything. She then went through a period of training small breeds for sports, dog shows and breeding, grooming dogs, providing temporary home care for puppies from dumpsters, agility, and helping at a dog shelter (correcting behavioral issues in dogs),...