Download or read book Enhancing Human Occupation Through Hippotherapy written by Barbara Teichmann Engel and published by American Occupational Therapy Association, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Occupational therapy always has focused on the individual as active in meaningful and purposeful activity. In hippotherapy, the therapist uses the horse as an intervention strategy to help stimulate a client, who passively sits astride a moving horse and then accommodates himself or herself to the movement. If there is no active, purposeful participation and the client is not actively or purposely involved, how does occupational therapy fit? That question is answered in this book, the first of its kind to detail the field's current and potential contributions to Hippotherapy. The chapters in this book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students who want to study more about hippotherapy; for faculty members who plan to include hippotherapy in their academic curricula; for researchers who are studying and documenting hippotherapy; for clinicians who are working in hippotherapy or therapeutic horseback riding and want to update their knowledge in research or a particular practice area; and for riders or their parents who are interested in the development, application, and benefits of hippotherapy."--Note de l'éditeur.