Animal assisted therapy is a multidisciplinary program that involved experts from various fields. It can be applied widely in a variety of ways, ranging from infants to the elderly, from animal assisted activity to animal assisted therapy, up from individual counseling to group counseling. We summarizes and analysis the current literatures about the animal assisted therapy in order to theological review of the counselling and psychological programs to develop and evaluate the animal assisted therapy programs.

• 배지연(원광대학교 보건보완의학 대학원 동물매개심리치료 전공) | Ji-Yeoun Bae
• 김옥진(원광대학교 보건보완의학 대학원 동물매개심리치료 전공, 원광대학교 동물자원개발연구센터) | Okjin Kim Corresponding author