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[Schema Therapy with Sheep: Animal-assisted Intervention in Schema Therapeutic Psychiatric Addiction Treatment]
Petra Schmid1, Carmen Nauss2, Carmen Uhlmann1
1Klinik I für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität Ulm (Weissenau), Versorgungsforschung, ZfP Südwürttemberg, Ravensburg, Germany.
Aim Of The Study:
Schematherapy is often used in addiction treatment. The question is whether animal-assisted interventions can improve the effects.
Method:
During an inpatient psychiatric stay with a schematherapeutic focus, an animal-assisted intervention with sheep was implemented. A case report is presented.
Results:
After the intervention, the individual mode model of the presented patient shows significant changes towards a strengthening the healthy adult and happy child mode and a reduction of dysfunctional modes.
Conclusion:
The animal-assisted intervention, embedded in a schematherapeutic context, was experienced in this patient as well implementable and impressively effective with regard to a modification of the mode model.
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