A many researcher suggest that children exhibit a natural interest towards insects, and different intervention programs have shown the presence of an insect being able to increase children’s attentiveness and motivation levels. Nonetheless, few research effort have been devoted to the identification of specific insect characteristics able to attract and engage children. This study was aimed at assessing children’s preference for insect species. Children aged 12 years participated in the study and were tested on a choice task, using pet insect program. Children’s preferences for different species and for effects of sex analyzed. Overall, girls showed a preference for more lepidoptera species like cabbage butterfly and swallowtail butterfly. On the other hand, boys showed a preference for coleoptera insect. Results and their implications for the child-insect bond are discussed.

This study is to investigate the effect of the pet insect therapy. The pet insect program was provided with 7session from May 2014 to July 2014. The measures used in this study includes self-esteem scale, social competence scale and stress scale. For analyses, t-tests with pre-test and post-test scores of experimental group and control group by SPSS 18.0. Regarding the results insect group who participated in the pet insect program showed higher mean scores in Self-Esteem scale, Social Competence Scale and stress Scale than those of control group. Mean score differences were statistically significant in at least p<0.01 level. The study results means that the pet insect program had effects on the improvement of Self-Esteem, Social Competence and reduce stress for elementary school children.

본 연구는 방과 후에 지역아동센터를 이용하는 초등학교 저학년의 학생을 대상으로 통합적 미술활동을 적용한 동물매개중재 프로그램이 아동들의 사회성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보기 위하여 2015년 5월부터 7월까지 진행하였다. 동물매개중재 프로그램은 지 역아동센터에서 주1회씩 10회기 동안 이루어졌다. 연구결과 전체적으로 산만하고 불안했던 아동들의 자아상이 또래와의 관계와 배려심이 점점 향상되어가고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 아동들의 변화는 치료도우미견과 함께 하는 활동. 놀이를 통하여 타인을 배려하는 마음과 통합적 미술활동을 적용한 긍정적인 감정표현으로 또래와의 상호작용 능력이 향상되었다. 이러한 연구결과는 통합적 미술활동을 적용한 동물매개중재 프로그램을 통하여 아동의 타인을 배려하는 마음과 긍정적인 감정표현으로 또래와의 상호작용 능력의 향상으로 아동들의 사회성에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 해석할 수 있다.

본 연구는 2015년 9월 23일~ 11월 25일까지 총 10회기를 진행하였고, 주 1회 10회기에 걸쳐 방과 후 활동을 프로그램 시간으로 활용하였다. 연구대상은 전라북도 I시에 위치한 ○○초등학교로 해당학급의 교사들의 관찰과 추천사항을 통해 주변사람들의 눈치를 보며 자신의 감정표현을 못하고, 자신감이 부족하여 말수가 적고, 수동적인 참여를 하는 2학년 ∼6학년 재학생 아동 5명으로 구성되었다. 연구결과는 사전‧사후 관찰 결과를 통해 산만하 거나 상대방에 대해 부정적으로 표현하던 아동들이 중후반기 단계부터 활동에 집중도가 높아지고 자신의 표현을 적극적으로 하는 변화된 모습을 보였다. 하지만 선정된 대상들이 학급 담임교사들의 추천에 의해 선정된 아동들로 위축아동보다는 자기표현과 감정조절 및 행동조절능력에 미숙한 아동들로 이루어져있음을 관찰을 통해 확인하여 양적인 결과에 어려움이 있었다. 연구 대상 선정 시 양적연구도 함께 진행을 한다면 보다 확실하고 명백한 연구결과를 확인가능하다.

We are aimed to conduct the survey research to evaluate the university students's awareness pn the care systems of abandoned animals. We deals with the findings obtained from extensive interviews with a representative samples. The objectives of interviews included 546 students in Wonkwang, Keimyung and Chosun University. Questions focused on how students were recognized the need and policies of the care systems of the abandoned animals. Questionnaire and technical data are analysed and summarized. As the results of the survey research, the objectives of interviews had well understood about the policies of adoption of the abandoned animals. Conclusionally, the promotions of adoption of the abandoned animals were need. The effective promotions of the adoption of the abandoned animals will be desirable for the establishment of abandoned animal welfare.

In this article, we reviewed how the therapy animals for animal assisted intervention (AAI) could be treated ethically in the aspects of animal welfare. Our goal is to reexamine the animal-human partnership from the animal's viewpoint to see what the benefits might be for the animal, or to see if the raising, training, and deployment of assistance and therapy animals is causing significant degradation in animal welfare. Also, we want to make an impression for AAI therapists to examine their ethical responsibility for the welfare of their therapeutic assisting animals. Animal assisted psychotherapist must respect the integrity of the animals and recognize that their rights and safety are safeguarded. In this article, we intend to provide recent advanced knowledge on the animal welfare and ethical reference in the filed of animal-assisted intervention.

본 연구는 동물매개중재프로그램이 중학생의 정서지능과 사회성에 미치는 영향을 검증하고자 하였다. 연구대상은 서울특별시 A구 B소재의 중학교에서 방과 후 교육을 이용하는 학생 중에 동물에 관심이 있는 남학생들로 프로그램연구에 동의하는 8명을 선정하였다. 동물매개중재프로그램은 주 2회 45분씩 6주간 총 12회기를 실시하였으며 프로그램계획 및 운영은 동물매개심리상담사 1급자격증을 취득한 본 연구자와 보조 진행자로 한국동물 매개심리치료학회 소속 동물매개심리상담전문가 1인과 펫파트너로 동물매개심리치료학 전공 4학기생과 동물매개심리상담사 2급자격증을 가진 2인이 반려견 2두와 함께 참여하였다. 치료도우미견을 활용한 동물매개중재프로그램의 효과성을 측정하기 위해 사용한 검사도구는 정서지능 척도검사, 사회성 척도검사이며 비모수적 통계분석 (non-parametrictest)방법인 윌콕슨 부호순위검증(Wilcoxon's signed ranks test)을 통 해 사전검사와 사후검사간의 점수 차이를 분석하였다. 본 연구결과 동물매개중재 프로그 램이 중학생의 정서지능과 사회성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 먼저 정서지능에서 정서인식 및 표현, 감정이입, 정서·사고촉진, 정서활용 그리고 정서조절에서 유의한 차이 가 나타났고, 사회성에서는 신뢰성, 자율성, 사교성 그리고 준법성에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 특히 정서조절과 사교성에서 다소 높은 효과를 나타내었다. 이는 동물매개중재의 차별화된 장점의 결과로 보인다. 따라서 동물매개중재프로그램은 중학생의 정서지능과 사 회성 향상에 효과가 있다는 연구결과의 의의가 있다.

The veterinary technology of the U.S. has been improving for fast 60 years. Now, the practical study is getting more important in field of veterinary medicine and laboratory research and the veterinary technician is leading the people who work for veterinary field in the world. The history of veterinary technology in the U.S. reaches to over 60 years. They, however, make their veterinary technology to be organized and to be good partners with veterinarians. In the very first time, the veterinary technology was started in the U.S. Army for caring of military dogs and horses. The army established the veterinary troop for the management of foods, public hygiene, and animal service. From the early 1960, some veterinarians recognized the need of animal assistant according to the increase of veterinary industry in the U.S.. They began to establish department of veterinary technology in a few colleges and to organize committee or board which controled its exam, curriculum, and accreditation. In 1967, American Veterinary Medical Association started to accredit some program of veterinary technology in official. Now, it has accredit over 300 programs in the U.S.. The organization of veterinary technician has grown to lead animal industry in the country. The Bureau of Labor Standards reported there were over 80,000 veterinary technicians in the U.S. and the job growth will grow average or more in the next ten years.

This study was designed to verify the effects of Animal Assisted Therapy program on aggressive children’s school life improvements and social skills. The 2 children chosen for the study under agreements were brothers raised by violent. father and uncaring mother. The children were both having trouble adjusting to school rules and regulations with distracted and aggressive attitudes accompanied by inadequate social skills towards classmates and teachers they associated with. The AAT program was proposed as a form of educational donation and conducted as 14 sessions of 40 minutes for each child as an individual therapy session at the elementary school consultation room, Daejeon, once a week after school hours, with 2 therapy dogs, a cat or birds controlled by 1 therapist. KSD : Kinetic School Drawing, KFD : Kinetic Family Drawing, SCT : Sentence Completion Test were used as the scales to measure the effects of Animal Assisted Therapy on this study. KSD analysis showed the differences between the preliminary and the post tests, which changed from the violent expression to the positive and cooperative behaviors with their associates as well as their participations in the class. KFD also showed dramatic changes from isolation of each family member to gathering and sharing a space among family members despite absence of their mother. SCT: Sentence Completion Test showed their emotions more in detail related to the recent changes in family matters. The realistic achievement of this study was that the family was arranged to go under control of the Ward Office by Family Solution Project, which would insure continuous monitoring and further care. The education and consultation for the fosterers were also to be offered on a regular basis.