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EQUINE THERAPY 2
Equine Therapy
Equine therapy is the assisted psychotherapy that includes horses in the healing process.
The therapeutic process includes feeding, grooming, and leading horses while being supervised
by mental health professionals. Equine therapy aims to help individuals develop skills such as
responsibility, self-confidence, and emotional regulation. The healing process is anticipated to
serve people of different ages and patients with various afflictions, such as cancer, diabetes, and
substance abuse. Equine therapy's main benefits are that it enhances adaptability, self-esteem,
social awareness, emotional awareness, distress tolerance, impulse control, social awareness and
social relationships, and vulnerability management.
Therapeutic healing originated from a Greek physician, Hippocrates, also known as the
Father of Medicine, when he wrote about horse riding's therapeutic effects. The therapeutic value
of riding was documented by Orbasis of ancient Lydia in 600 B.C. (The Anxiety Treatment
Center, n.d.). In 1946, Scandinavia introduced equine therapy after a poliomyelitis outbreak.
Initially, horses were viewed as a source of food before they were domesticated and seen as a
way of traveling and working fast. The main reason horses were viable for domestication is that
they have a social sense of pecking order and appear very friendly to humans (Enlightened
Solutions, 2020). Since their domestication, horses have been used in hunting, warfare,
transportation, recreation, and herding. They have also been used to pull chariots, wagons, carts,
carriages, and soldiers in the battle. The bond that both horses and humans share is solid and is
celebrated throughout history in most art forms, even very early artwork such as cave paintings.
Horses have been therapeutic and have changed many lives, which should be considered and
emphasized. Horses are suitable for equine therapy since they have several ways they can bond
with humans and change their perspective forever. In this case, bonding occurs through response

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Running head: EQUINE THERAPY 1 Equine Therapy Draft EQUINE THERAPY 2 Equine Therapy Equine therapy is the assisted psychotherapy that includes horses in the healing process. The therapeutic process includes feeding, grooming, and leading horses while being supervised by mental health professionals. Equine therapy aims to help individuals develop skills such as responsibility, self-confidence, and emotional regulation. The healing process is anticipated to serve people of different ages and patients with various afflictions, such as cancer, diabetes, and substance abuse. Equine therapy's main benefits are that it enhances adaptability, self-esteem, social awareness, emotional awareness, distress tolerance, impulse control, social awareness and social relationships, and vulnerability management. Therapeutic healing originated from a Greek physician, Hippocrates, also known as the Father of Medicine, when he wrote about horse riding's therapeutic effects. The therapeutic value of riding was documented by Orbasis of ancient Lydia in 600 B.C. (The Anxiety Treatment Center, n.d.). In 1946, Scandinavia introduced equine therapy after a poliomyelitis outbreak. Initially, horses were viewed as a source of food before they were domesticated and seen as a way of traveling and working fast. The main reason horses were viable for domestication is that they have a social sense of pecking order and appear very friendly to humans (Enlightened Solutions, 2020). Since their domestication ...
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