1998 issue 3

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Volume 7, issue 3

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Hippotherapy: An attractive method of treatment of developmental mental disorders

Agnieszka Gmitrowicz1, ANNA DZIENIAKOWSKA1, DOROTA WARZOCHA1
1. II Kliniki Psychiatrycznej Katedry Psychiatrii Akademii Medycznej w Łodzi
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 1998, 7, 345-350
Keywords: hipotherapy, mental disorders

Abstract

The authors share their several-years-long clinical experience in the introduction of horse-assisted therapy to patients of the Adolescent Department, Second Psychiatric Clinic, Łódź Medical Academy. They present their own model of medical documentation of therapeutic progress. Despite its many positives, horse-assisted therapy, a form of hippotherapy, is still a very unpopular form of therapeutic intervention and therefore there is a great need to develop a realistic program for this form of therapy in Poland.

Address for correspondence:
Dr Agnieszka Gmitrowicz,
II Klinika Psychiatryczna Katedry Psychiatrii AM,
ul. Czechosłowacka 8/10, 92-216 Łódź