Announcements

New Animal Protection Law in Colorado -- The new law, for which Dr. Ascione provided testimony, includes animals in civil protection orders. Click here.

Denver Post features IHAC The Institute for Human-Animal Connection was recently featured in the Denver Post. Click here.

GSSW Magazine

Read about the Institute in the spring issue of 2010 GSSW MAGAZINE. Click here.

The Human-Animal Bond: Understanding the Intricate Relationship Between People and Animals -- This new course was taught fall quarter 2009 at the University of Denver by Professor Philip Tedeschi.  Click here.

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The Institute for Human-Animal Connection (IHAC) is an internationally recognized center for research and training in the varied facets of human-animal interaction across the lifespan and grounded in evidenced-based practice for implementing diverse and ethically responsible animal-supported educational and therapeutic interventions.

IHAC is a respected source of scientific and scholarly information on human-animal connections within the fields of social work and social sciences.

 

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Forthcoming  books  (October 2010) 
including chapters by GSSW authors!


Book Animals in our lives book How Animals Affect Us

Trujillo, K., Tedeschi, P., and Williams, J. H. (2010). Research meets practice: Issues for evidence-based training in HAI. In P. McCardle, S. McCune, L. Esposito, J. Griffin, and L. Freund (Eds.), Animals in our  lives: Human-animal interaction in family, community, and therapeutic settings (in press).  Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.

Ascione, F. R. and Maruyama, M. (2010). Animal abuse and developmental psychopathology. In P. McCardle, S. McCune, J. Griffin, and V. Maholmes (Eds.), How animals affect us: Examining the influence of human-animal interaction on child development and human health (in press). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

 

 

 

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