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Connor, Katherine and Julie Miller. “Help from Our Animal Friends.” Nursing Management 31.7 (2000): 42-46. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 11 February 2007. .

This article was a good article because the first part of it gave other names for pet therapy. I know this may seem not important, but when I was having trouble coming up with search words this was very helpful. It was also very helpful, because it gives a lot of good and positive information on pet therapy. It gives a definition on animal-assisted therapy and gives a whole list of its benefits describing them. It also talks about the education that is involved with animal-assisted therapy.

Kaminski, Mary and Teresa Pellino and Joel Wish. “Play and Pets: The Physical and Emotional Impact of Child-Life and Pet Therapy on Hospitalized Children.” Children’s Healthcare 31.4 (2002): 321- 335. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 11 February 2007. .

This article was also a fairly good article. It talked obviously about pet therapy with children in the hospital setting, and the benefits and affects it had on the children. There are some good statistics within this article, and it also talks about “Pet Pals,” which is a canine pet visitation program. This article actually goes through the experiment or test that was done testing what the impact was that pets had on children in the hospital.

Hooker, Shirley and Linda Freeman, and Pamela Stewart. “Pet Therapy Research: A Historical Review.” Holistic Nursing Practices 17.1 (2002): 17-23. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 11 February 2007. .

This article gives the history of when pet therapy began which in the United States was in 1919 when Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane suggested using dogs with psych patients at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC. It also talks about when the actual research for animal assisted therapy began, which was in 1961 by a man named Boris Levinson, a child psychiatrist. This article is all about the history of pet therapy.