Healing with Animals
Scientific research indicates that pets can make us this, in addition to making us happy
What is healthier?
Interacting with animals can cause an increase in the level of this hormone in people.
What is oxytocin?
Vi, who helps people at the Children's Inn, is this type of dog.
What is a retired guide dog?
The article gives examples of different settings where animals are increasingly being used to help people, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and these.
What are schools, jails, and mental institutions?
Therapy animals provide these two things to people who are in need.
What are affection and comfort?
The use of pets in medical settings has historical roots dating back over this many years, according to Aubrey Fine.
What is more than 150?
Rebecca Johnson says oxytocin can help us feel these two positive emotions.
What are happy and trusting?
Aubrey Fine uses this type of colorful bird in his work as a psychologist with children.
What is a cockatoo?
This organization, along with a pet food company, recently created a federal research program to study how animals and humans interact.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
Johnson's research found that shelter dogs in walking programs were more likely to do this.
What is be adopted?
Florence Nightingale noticed that animals gave this kind of support to people who were mentally ill.
What is social support?
Johnson believes oxytocin can help our bodies get ready to do this.
What is heal?
Besides dogs and a cockatoo, Fine also works with this kind of lizard.
What is a bearded dragon?
The NIH program is run through this specific institute focused on the health of children.
What is the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development?
Military veterans who help shelter dogs learn basic obedience are also helped by doing this.
What is readjusting to being at home?
An early study found that people who had one of these and then had a heart attack lived longer.
What is a pet?
Besides helping us heal, oxytocin might also help our bodies do this with cells.
What is grow new cells?
At the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program, people with disabilities work with this large animal.
What is a horse?
Besides just feeling good, the article emphasizes that the benefits of having animals are also supported by this.
What is scientific research (or studies or evidence)?
Therapeutic riding can help people improve this important skill for balance and safety.
What is core strength?
Petting your own dog has been shown to potentially lower this health measurement.
What is blood pressure?
The increase of oxytocin when we are with animals may help explain this connection we feel with them.
What is the human-animal bond?
The speech therapist Cathy Coleman worked with Ryan and this spotted pony.
What is Happy?
This is the main subject that the article explores regarding the relationship between humans and animals.
What is how animals can help people's health (or the health benefits of having animals or pet therapy)?
Rebecca Johnson talks about oxytocin predisposing us to an "environment in our own bodies where we can be healthier." Here, "environment" is used to represent this.
What is a condition or a state?