Theoretical framework for animal-assisted interventions - Implications for practice

Therapeutic Communities

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-337

  Berget, Bente ^a   Braastad, Bjarne Olai ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

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