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Children and Companion Animals: Psychosocial, Medical, and Neurobiological Implications

Children and Companion Animals: Psychosocial, Medical, and Neurobiological Implications

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Children and companion animals seem to have a natural affinity towards each other. Most children desire a relationship with their own companion animals or at least demonstrate an interest to interact with animals in general. Living with companion animals or interacting with animals may have psychosocial, neurobiological, or medically relevant effects on typically developing children and juveniles as well as those with diverse and special needs.


In this eBook, we present several articles addressing the relationships between children/juveniles and animals in different countries, including Austria, Germany, Jamaica, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Three articles discuss approaches in animal-assisted education, including animal keeping and animal assisted interventions in schools, and an experimental study investigating immediate effects of dogs on reading competence and accompanying stress reactions with cortisol and behavior. Other articles address topics involving children and their companion animals, including dog-walking by children and juveniles, risks of dog bites by the family dog, selection of pet dogs for families with a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the relationships that children with ASD have with their family cats.


The interactions between children/juveniles and animals addressed in this eBook provide new insights into some scarcely investigated themes, and underline the significance of animals in children's lives.

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Keywords

  • Animal-Assisted Education
  • Animal-Assisted Intervention
  • Animal-Assisted Therapy
  • Autism
  • Children
  • Companion Animals
  • Dog Bite Prevention
  • Human-Animal Interactions
  • medicine

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DOI: 10.3389/978-2-88945-559-1

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