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PERSONAL CONSTRUCT
THEORY & PRACTICE
Vol.14
2017

An Internet Journal devoted to the Psychology of Personal Constructs

 
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EQUINE ASSISTED CONSTRUCTIVIST PSYCHOTHERAPY:
THEORY AND PRACTICE


Francesca Del Rizzo


Institute of Constructivist Psychology, Padua, Italy

  



Abstract

Horses had been a primary resource for men since their domestication: at the beginning they helped in any kind of job and made possible travels and transport. Nowadays they are used in sports, free time activities and therapy and they still prove they can be great companions for human beings' enterprises. In the therapeutic field they are traditionally used in hippotherapy, in therapeutic riding and in riding for the disabled persons. More recently Eagala (Mandrell, 2006) developed a psychotherapeutic practice that uses horses as facilitators. Following a childhood dream I'm now trying to develop my own constructivist psychotherapeutic model involving horses as co-construers of the therapeutic experience. I'm trying to subsume the therapeutic approach developed by Eagala by means of PCT theoretical tools (Kelly, 1955). In this talk I will discuss my efforts in this direction especially through a case report.
 
Key-words: constructivist psychotherapy, equine assisted psychotherapy, equine assisted constructivist psychotherapy.



 


About the author


Francesca Del Rizzo is an Italian constructivist psychologist and psychotherapist. She works as a teacher in the Institute of Constructivist Psychology in Padua, Italy. She is interested in psychotherapy, sport psychology, equine assisted psychotherapy and in the constructivist didactics of psychotherapy.
 
Contact: francesca.delrizzo@tin.it


 


Reference

Del Rizzo, F.
(2017). Equine assisted constructivist psychotherapy: Theory and practice.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 14, 79-86

(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp17/delrizzo17.pdf)



 

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