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Equine-assisted services help families impacted by domestic abuse

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ResearchPod
Episode • Nov 6, 2024 • 11m

For millennia, humans and horses have enjoyed a special relationship. Recent research shows that working with horses can improve human mental health and wellbeing.

Professor Ann Hemingway is part of a multidisciplinary team that has demonstrated that equine-assisted services can improve outcomes for families impacted by domestic abuse and mitigate the conditions that fuel it, and believes that the benefits of such an intervention could be delivered through virtual reality technology.

Read the original research : https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9060303

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