Transforming Trauma: Resiliency and Healing through our Connections with Animals

Philip Tedeschi, LCSW MSSW, is a Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at University of Denver. He is the Founder and Director Emeritus of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection and the Co-Director of the Institute for Animal Sentience and Protection.

In this presentation, Philip reviews some of the important ways that animals are being incorporated into clinical responses to trauma highlighting findings discussed in his book, including the neurobiological mechanisms of change in AAI.

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In his opening keynote address from the 2019 Natural Lifemanship conference, Philip Tedeschi presents emerging research and examples of the important roles that animals can play in responding to trauma, highlighting contributions from the new book edited by Philip Tedeschi and Molly Jenkins; Transforming Trauma: Finding Resilience and Healing through our Connections with Animals with forward by Dr. Bruce Perry.

This keynote reviews some of the important ways that animals are being incorporated into clinical responses to trauma. Highlights include the discussion of possible neurobiological explanations for how the integration of animals into the process of therapy may have important and beneficial impacts on individual healing.

Philip Tedeschi explores some case examples, and clinical methods with emphasis on animals’ natural capacity for engagement in dynamic therapeutic relational play. He also offers input on the ethical considerations of including animals in trauma response.

Philip Tedeschi, LCSW MSSW, is a Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at University of Denver. He is the Founder and Director Emeritus of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection. Philip Tedeschi, LCSW MSSW and the Co-Director of the Institute for Animal Sentience and Protection.