Healing With Horses: Fostering Recovery From Cancer With Horses as Therapists

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-268

  Haylock, Pamela J ^a   Cantril, Cynthia A ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AFFECT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; DEATH; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORSEBACK RIDING; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECREATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HORSES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICK ROLE;

EID: 33646497640     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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