CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia
Title
Examining Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy as a Complement to Standard Care for Foster Youth in Residential Treatment
Event Name
2017 Conference On Solution-Focused Practices
Event Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Department
Department of Family Therapy
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Presentation Date
11-8-2017
Description
The project represents a university-community partnership among FIU-BRIDGE, Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Family Therapy Program, Stable Place, a non‐profit in its fifth year of providing equine facilitated psychotherapy in the community, and the SOS Children’s Village, a foster child residential treatment facility. This project is offering Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy as an adjunctive treatment for South Florida foster youth in a residential treatment program. We will examine the impact of participation on the participant’s quality of life including self‐confidence, self-efficacy, mindfulness and interpersonal relations, as well as anxiety and depressive symptoms. The specific clinical training model proposed will provide a consistent, theoretically based approach to EFP (Green, in press, 2014, 2013, 2011). The EFP clinical model utilizes a number of Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA)‐based and other standard equine facilitated activities (Faa‐Thompson, 2012; Trotter, 2012); however, the clinical processing of those activities is consistently informed by systemic, brief therapy traditions (Cade & O’Hanlon, 1993; Hoyt, 1996) and was developed by Dr. Green at NSU.
NSUWorks Citation
Hospital, M. M.; Green, Shelley K.; Morris, Janine; Wagner, E.; Rothman, N.; Rolleston, Michael; and Schroeder, Monica, "Examining Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy as a Complement to Standard Care for Foster Youth in Residential Treatment" (2017). CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia. 2366.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cahss_facpres/2366
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