This study was designed to verify the effects of Animal Assisted Intervention on self regulations and behavioral problems of the elementary school students who had trouble adjusting to school life due to emotional problems, matter of behaviors, hyper activities, peer problems and prosocial behavior(Sociotropy). The experimental unit used in this study consisted of 8 students aged between 8 and 13, both male and female, who satisfied the criterion of Strengths and Difficulties, the preliminary test, reported by each class teacher. The unit was treated by Animal Assisted Intervention program, divided into 2 groups by grade each made up of 4 subjects in the lower grades and the higher grades. The program consisted of 12 sessions and each was run for 45 minutes with 4 therapy dogs throughout 10 weeks. The data was analyzed with Wilcoxon's signed ranks test on SPSS 20.0 and in brief showed the following results. Animal Assisted Intervention on Self Regulation improvement program was verified to have significant effects on the elementary school students' self regulations and Strengths and Difficulties that reflects behavioral problems

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.