Issues In The Animal-Assisted Therapy

Issues In The Animal-Assisted Therapy


The animal-assisted therapy help to improve people in health conditions, both psychological traumas and physical conditions. People who uses this practicealways talk about how effective is for several complications such sociopath conditions and physical movement therapy. The animal-assisted therapy has issues that make patients to no get this serviceand improve their lives. Some of them don’t have the economic resources in order to get the animals. Other problem rises in medical approval of the animal assisted therapy, this is a matter that stillunder research, and therefore healthcare benefits are under sponsorship discussion.

Some patients don’t have the resources to get the access to the animal-assisted Therapy because of theircondition their resources are tight to get access to the animals. The Oakland university nursing program declares: “Since this is considered professional development / continuing education, the Cost for theprogram is $299 per course times 5 courses ($1,495)”. (Oakland University, 2010) and this is only for train small animals like dogs and cats. The cost of the therapy differs also in the diversity ofthe animal. The Washington Post revealed the cost of the dolphin assisted therapy for autism patients : “. They're found in such widely scattered places as Florida, Hawaii, Mexico, Israel, Australiaand Ukraine, and a study cited in 2007 by the international Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said a typical charge was $2,600 for five 40-minute sessions”. (The Washington Post, 2010) Which isstill very expensive for patients that have physical and psychological conditions to afford its therapies. The solution would be not only creating volunteer groups that own the animals and sponsorpatients, but programs that let the patients lends the animals in their recovery for certain time. Due their precarious economical condition some patients cannot afford to get the animal-assisted therapy...