Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma

This book demonstrates a range of equine-assisted mental health approaches and step-by-step strategies for facilitating recovery from trauma for children, adults, and families.

Kay Sudekum Trotter, PhD, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC, CEIP-MH, is a licensed professional counselor supervisor, author, speaker, and consultant, as well as the founder of Kaleidoscope Behavioral Health in Flower Mound, Texas, where she has developed and taught animal-assisted therapy workshops. Dr. Trotter's groundbreaking research led to one of the first published studies on the effectiveness of equine-assisted mental health. She is the author of Harnessing the Power of Equine Assisted Counseling: Adding Animal Assisted Therapy to Your Practice. Jennifer N. Baggerly, PhD, LPC-S, RPT-S, is a professor of counseling at University of North Texas at Dallas, a licensed professional counselor supervisor, and a registered play therapist supervisor who also provides counseling at Kaleidoscope Behavioral Health. She is a former chair of the board for the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Baggerly has taught and provided counseling for children for over 20 years. Her other books include Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment, Group Play Therapy: A Dynamic Approach, and Child-Centered Play Therapy Research: The Evidence Base for Effective Practice.

Section One: Trauma Originating in Childhood 1. Integrating Somatic Experiencing® and Attachment into Equine-Assisted Trauma Recovery Sarah Schlote 2. Treating Structural Dissociation Through Equine-Assisted Trauma Therapy: Working with the Parts System Sarah Schlote and Ilka Parent 3. Increasing Tolerance for Calm in Clients with Complex Trauma and Dissociation Sarah Jenkins 4. Natural Lifemanship's Trauma-Focused EAP for Reactive Attachment Disorder Bettina Shultz-Jobe, Kate Naylor, and Tim Jobe 5. Working with Relational Trauma: Limbic Restructuring through Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy Philippa Williams 6. Equine-Assisted Group Therapy for Adolescent Sexual Trauma Survivors: Development, Implementation, and Outcomes Kirby L. Wycoff and Virginia Murphy 7. Experiential Equine-Assisted Focal Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Addressing Personality and Attachment in Clients with Chronic Childhood Trauma Géza Kovács Section Two: Trauma Occurring during Adulthood 8. Equine-Assisted Therapy for Trauma - Accidents Nina Ekholm Fry 9. Families and Trauma Rebecca F. Bailey and Elizabeth Bailey 10. Natural Lifemanship's Trauma-Focused Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP): Equine-Connected Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EC-EMDR) Bettina Shultz-Jobe, Kathleen Choe and Tim Jobe 11. Warrior PATHH: Integrated Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Growth in Combat Veterans Rob Pliskin 12. Treating Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder through Psychodynamic Equine-Assisted Traumatherapy Ilka Parent Appendix 1. General Trauma-Informed Therapy Trainings Appendix 2. Trauma-Informed Equine-Assisted Mental Health Trainings