Buch, Englisch, 329 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 6387 g
A New Understanding of Man's Best Friend
Buch, Englisch, 329 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 6387 g
ISBN: 978-3-319-30095-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Included in the coverage:
- Masculine gender role conflict theory, research, and practice: implications for understanding the human-animal bond in males’ lives.
- At-risk youth and at-risk dogs helping one another.
An examination of human-animal interaction as an outlet for healthy masculinity in prison.
- Exploring how the human-animal bond affects men’s relational capacity to make and sustain meaningful attachment bonds with both human and animal companions.<
Older adults and companion animals: physical and psychological benefits of the bond. - Continuing the bonds with animal companions: implications for men grieving the loss of a dog.
Probing the deeper concepts behind “man’s best friend,” Men and Their Dogs provides a rich clinical understanding of this timeless bond, and should be of special interest to health psychologists, clinical psychologists, academicians, social workers, nurses, counselors, life coaches and dog lovers.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Contextual Issues.- A brief history of man's best friend in animal studies.- Understanding the contextual nature of man's best friend.- The link between violence to humans and animals.- Race and ethnicity as a contextual factor influencing perception of the human-animal bond.- Attachment and Well-Being.- Heuristic nature of Bowlby's attachment theory as a means to conceptualize the human-animal bond.- Pets Forever: an innovative service learning course helping community pet owners.- Play and the human-animal bond as a mediator of stress among men with gender role conflict.- Canine companions as self-objects: the role of animal companions in men's lives.- Overview of research on the left gaze bias found in dogs: how humans and animals recognize and respond to the emotional state of another.- Attachment between humans and dogs in Japanese culture.- Attachment to animal companions among a veteran population.- Attachment to animal companions and normative male alexithymia.- Grief, Loss,and the Continued Bond.- Men's grieving styles: the importance of disenfranchised grief and dissonant grief.- Overview of the continuing bond with animal companions: implications for men and their dogs.- Do men really grieve less for animal companions? The influence of gender role conflict and dissonant grief in understanding men's attachment and loss of an animal companion.