Equine therapies in North America, exploring themes in the literature

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dc.contributor.authorRoutley, Sasha
dc.contributor.supervisorArtz, Sibylle
dc.contributor.supervisorHarper, Nevin
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-06T00:30:55Z
dc.date.available2021-01-06T00:30:55Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2021-01-05
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Careen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe field of equine therapy (ET) in Canada and the USA encompasses a range of distinct approaches, such as equine-facilitated therapy, equine-assisted therapy, therapeutic riding, and hippotherapy. Due to issues like inconsistent terminology and lack of standardized practice manuals, there are gaps in the ET knowledge about how these approaches relate or differ from each other. This research reviewed 47 scholarly, peer-reviewed articles about ET approaches and applied thematic analysis to determine key themes that clarify key traits of each approach. Recognizing that children and youth are common participants in equine therapy, this research was motivated by the questions: What type of relational dynamics are modelled for children and youth in ET? How are these horse-human relationships portrayed? Which participants possess their own agency? Findings of this research provide insights about each approach of ET and highlight the therapeutic affects of interspecies relationships between humans and horses. Contradictory viewpoints about mutual agency between species are identified in language that described horses are active, intelligent subjects and/or passive, inanimate objects. This research provides insights about the different forms of ET, highlights important benefits and gaps, and invites the fields of Child and Youth Care and Animal-Assisted Therapy to critically reflect on the relational tensions of employing non-human animals in human therapy.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12516
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectequine therapyen_US
dc.subjectthematic literature reviewen_US
dc.subjectthematic analysisen_US
dc.subjectchildren and youthen_US
dc.subjectanimal-assisted therapyen_US
dc.subjectchild and youth careen_US
dc.subjectinterspecies relationshipsen_US
dc.subjecthorse-human relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectequine-facilitated therapyen_US
dc.subjectequine-assisted therapyen_US
dc.subjecttherapeutic ridingen_US
dc.subjecthippotherapyen_US
dc.subjectanimal agencyen_US
dc.titleEquine therapies in North America, exploring themes in the literatureen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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