Exam 10: Equine Assisted Counseling: An Alternative Approach to Trauma Eugenia L Weiss, Shawnmari Kaiser, and Gary Adler

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Identify and describe three safety practices that should be taught to clients prior to beginning work with horses.

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Clients should be taught safety and anxiety reduction exercises before participating in equine assisted therapy. These may include safe place, deep breathing and a stress awareness diary. In using safe space, clients are coached in accessing a visual image when panicked. Deep breathing involves bringing breathing to a normal flow. A stress awareness diary is the process of notating daily, stressful events.

What are two of the most common approaches used alongside equine-assisted treatment programs?

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What is entailed in the relaxation technique taught to clients for equine therapy, and when is it used in equine therapy?

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Prior to starting work with the horses, clients learn about and practice relaxation techniques. This process is a sequence of tightening and relaxing muscle groups from head to toe when triggered by an event or emotion.

What type of treatment is equine therapy?

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What is the key factor in deciding modality with a client in equine treatment?

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Describe and explain the importance of three factors that practitioners should consider during the screening and assessment process of clients for equine therapy.

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What underlying problem is often experienced by persons seeking equine therapy approaches?

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Describe at least three reasons that a person impacted by trauma may seek equine-assisted counseling.

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What war, in the early 1900s, brought attention to soldiers and horses working together thus laying the foundation of equine treatment?

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What are the three areas addressed by equine treatment for persons seeking help?

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Horses are motivated by their basic needs.

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Equine-assisted counseling is rooted in gestalt theory.

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What are two evidence-based treatment approaches used in equine therapy?

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Equine-assisted counseling works well in conjunction with other traditional therapeutic modalities.

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The consequences of working with horses in equine-assisted counseling are that clients are unable to build awareness of mannerisms or a safe sense of boundaries.

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Pegasus Rising is the name ascribed to horses used in equine therapy.

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Although equine-assisted counseling can be effective for traumatized clients, practitioners must recognize the difference between military veterans and civilians.

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One of the similarities between horses and humans is that they both desire connection.

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A practitioner does not have to be licensed to offer equine therapy because it is metaphor-based intervention.

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Trauma can affect individuals at physical, cognitive, spiritual, and relational levels.

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