1st Edition
Careers in One Health Social Workers’ Roles in Caring for Humans and Their Animal Companions
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.
