Historical development of canistherapy across organizations

This Bachelor´s work deals with the topic of historical development of canistherapy across the organizations and surveys the development and improvement of canistherapy in the organizations, which provide social services in České Budějovice. The theoretical part describes zootherapy and canistherapy. It shows the involvement of animals in therapy, its history, subdivision, methods and forms used. Next chapter focuses on canistherapy issues. It describes the origin of the relationship between dog and human, history of the therapy in the world, in Czech Republic, and other specifics of the therapy. The aim of the practical part was to find how much the canistherapy has improved over the years in organizations providing social services in České Budějovice. Two major research questions were posed to identify these goals. 1: How has the canistherapy in České Budějovice developed historically? 2: How has the the canistheraphy improved in České Budějovice over the years? A qualitative research strategy has been used for research, using a polling metod and a semistructured interview technique. The research team consisted of workers from three organizations providing social services in České Budějovice and was completed by a canistherapists, who visit the organization on a regular basis. The results were processed using the method of open coding. The results showed that the standards of canistherapy are still improving. We can see this fact on changes within the organizations - the number of clients and their interest in canistherapy is growing. It was found that there is an active effort to unify and include canistherapy into the methods of social work. This work can be used by the public, canistherapists and organizations providing social services, to describe canistherapy as a focused therapy for the clients, and to inform about the efforts to include the canistherapy into the methods of social work