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EQUINE ASSISTED CONSTRUCTIVIST PSYCHOTHERAPY:
THEORY AND PRACTICE
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Francesca Del Rizzo
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Institute of Constructivist Psychology, Padua, Italy |
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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.
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About the author
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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
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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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