1st Edition
Careers in One Health Social Workers’ Roles in Caring for Humans and Their Animal Companions
Social workers play a critical role in the wellbeing of communities – trained to help individuals, families, and groups effect positive change and address barriers that stand in the way of optimal life and wellbeing. In addition to a focus on people, many social workers include animals in their definition of systems and family units, leading to endless ways they have successfully incorporated animals into their work.
This book offers insights from pioneers as well as practitioners in the field who have created their niche within this growing area. Coming from the philosophy that we cannot work towards what we do not know exists, this book offers knowledge, pathways, and advice from those who have succeeded in including their love for animals into their careers, shining a light on the path for those who share similar passions.
The book can be used as a supplemental textbook in undergraduate and graduate social work academic programs as well as a resource for social workers in the field looking for ways to expand their work.
Section One – Veterinary Social Work
Chapter One – The interprofessional practice space of veterinary social work- a social worker’s perspective
Elizabeth Strand
Chapter Two – Embedded social work in a school of veterinary medicine
Page Walker Buck
Chapter Three – The cherished pets model of veterinary social work
Judy Wookey and Alicia Kennedy
Chapter Four - Veterinary social work journey
Erin Allen
Chapter Five – Kaleidoscope of a veterinary social worker
Jacquelyn Rebekah James
Chapter Six – Grief led me here
Michelle Mezansky
Chapter Seven – Veterinary social work: becoming the best version of your professional self
Lisa Hacker
Chapter Eight – Hospital-based veterinary social work: a brief primer
Judith Harbour
Chapter Nine – Partnering with therapy animal handler volunteers in healthcare: an introduction to volunteer management for social workers
Whitney Romine
Chapter Ten – My journey from human medicine to veterinary medicine
Robin Lehrhoff
Chapter Eleven – A horse of a different color
Tom Favale
Section Two – Human Animal Interactions focused Program Development and Policy Advocacy
Chapter Twelve – Programs & Policies
Susan P. Cohen and Anne-Elizabeth Straub
Chapter Thirteen – Policy advocacy and program evaluation: the external link of practice work in one health
Bailey Fullwiler
Chapter Fourteen – "Puffy’s Pet Boarding" – a second home for your dog
Rachel Nallathamby
Chapter Fifteen – Addressing the link between violence toward people and animals as a generalist social worker
Kathryn Ford
Chapter Sixteen – Chasing Impact: take that leap of faith
Urvashi Shobhna Kachari
Chapter Seventeen – Sprout: companion animal to service dog to career inspiration
Kristen Cudmore
Chapter Eighteen - On canines, conflicts & community: reflections on one health
Rajlakshmi Kanjilal
Chapter Nineteen – Equine-assisted social work: a perfect match
Dana Spett
Section Three – Animal Assisted Interventions
Chapter Twenty – The power of paws: working full-time in animal-assisted interactions
Katherine Compitus
Chapter Twenty-one – Animal assisted psychotherapy: integrating "canine co-therapists" into clinical social work outpatient treatment settings
Laurel Gray Robbins
Chapter Twenty-two – Animal assisted therapy in clinical work within the disability community
Tiffany Banks
Chapter Twenty-three – Paws in play: the power of integrating animals into play therapy practice
Michelle Pliske
Chapter Twenty-four – "The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse" My career in equine assisted services
Mary Acri
Chapter Twenty-five – Paws for play: dogs in play therapy
Lucy Llewellyn
Chapter Twenty-six – Finding your HAI niche
April Lang
Chapter Twenty-seven – Bear is my bridge
Janus Moncur
Chapter Twenty-eight – Pandemic pups: research and clinical implications
Jessica Wriedt
Chapter Twenty-nine – Shelter pets and sheltered kids: animal assisted therapy in juvenile justice
Stacy L. Mendell
Chapter Thirty – When psychology and social work meet: a clinician’s experiences in the mental health field
Emily Breitenbach
Chapter Thirty-one – Animal-assisted psychotherapy: the golden standard
Elizabeth Ruegg
Section Four – The Inclusion of Human-Animal Interactions within Social Work Practice
Chapter Thirty-two – HAI in social work practice
Janet Hoy-gerlach and Lisa Townsend
Chapter Thirty-three – Dare to dream
Angie Arora
Chapter Thirty-four – The integrated approach: one social worker’s roundabout career journey incorporating veterinary social work and one health
Christina Carr
Chapter Thirty-five – Careers in one health: social workersʼ roles in caring for humans and their companion animals
Lizett Justa Gutierrez
Chapter Thirty-six – Animals are my teachers
Maureen MacNamara
Chapter Thirty-seven – A social work path to teaching in higher education
Kristie Abbs
Chapter Thirty-eight – Providing effective supervision for veterinary social workers in practice
Rebecca Stephens and Tracey Harris
Chapter Thirty-nine – Social work outside the box
Emilie Evans
Chapter Forty – Advocacy and pawprints: how a dog changed my career
Amber Depuydt-Goodlock
Chapter Forty-one – True joy: animal assisted play therapy
Jacqueline George
Chapter Forty-two – A one health path to support health and wellbeing
Debbie Stoewen
Chapter Forty-three – Weaving humane education into social work
Maggie Lantzy and Sarah M. Bexell
Section Five – Human Animal Interactions Focus within Human and Animal Organizations
Chapter Forty-four – Emerging practices in animal welfare
Doug Plant
Chapter Forty-five – Lessons from horses led my career
Aviva Vincent
Chapter Forty-six – A Social Worker’s Learnings from the Human Animal Bond: Animals as Family, Healers and Colleagues
Dillon Dodson
Chapter Forty-seven – Elevating the lives of animals and our relationships with them
Molly Jenkins
Chapter Forty-eight – The best way to help pets is to help people
Elina Alterman
Chapter Forty-nine – Centering racialized lived experiences for human and animal well-being
Mueni Rudd
Chapter Fifty – Unexpected implementation of AAI in crisis work
Denna Hays
Chapter Fifty-one – Law enforcement, social work & therapy dogs
Angela Kenbok
Chapter Fifty-two – Police social work: partnering with animals to help heal communities
Alyssa Peters
Chapter Fifty-three – Serving people and animals: a worthy career
Christine Kim
Chapter Fifty-four – Social workers’ roles in caring for humans and their companion animals
Adeline Wong
Chapter Fifty-five – Animal assisted therapy in an Israeli psychiatric hospital
Patricia Tiram
Section Six – Human Animal Interactions Focus within Academia
Chapter Fifty-six – Finding professional and personal meaning through human-animal interaction academic research
Jen Currin-McCulloch
Chapter Fifty-seven – The professor and "the pit bull lady"
Yvonne Smith
Chapter Fifty-eight – How I became the "dog person" at work
Ashley O’Connor
Chapter Fifty-nine – Social workers’ roles in creating inclusive communities for all animals – human and non-human
Jedediah Bragg
Chapter Sixty – Designing a diverse social work career
Meghan Morrissey
Chapter Sixty-one – Human-animal-environment interactions in social work at the University of Denver
Jaci Gandenberger and Nina Ekholm Fry
Chapter Sixty-two – Supreme dogs, dream jobs
Yvonne Eaton-Stull
Chapter Sixty-three – How I got here
Kayla Baudoin
Chapter Sixty-four – Paw and hoofprints on my career path
Angela Lavery
Chapter Sixty-five – Critical animal studies and one health in social work
Atsuko Matsuoka
Chapter Sixty-six – Hospital veterinary social work in the Canadian context
Sarah Bernardi
Chapter Sixty-seven – Bringing veterinary social work into a one-health model
Augusta O'Reilly
Chapter Sixty-eight – Social work and human-animal interaction in an academic setting
Lisa Townsend
Biography
Lori R. Kogan, PhD, is a professor of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University. She is the chair of the Human-Animal Interaction section of the American Psychological Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Human-Animal Interaction journal, an open-access, online publication published by CABI. She has published numerous journal articles and books including Pet Loss, Grief, and Therapeutic Interventions: Practitioners Navigating the Human-Animal Bond, and Clinician's Guide to Treating Companion Animal Issues: Addressing Human-Animal Interaction. She is currently engaged in research pertaining to the intersection of the human-animal interaction and veterinary medicine.
