Horse assisted psychotherapy for people affected by trauma

This is a patient group that requires lot of resources over time, with variable effect. We see a great need for interventions that can help reduce individual suffering, socio-economic challenges and prevent fatigue in the help system.

Horse-assisted therapy (HAT) is an innovative complementary approach to psychotherapy. HAT is a sought-after and attractive offer, and we will investigate why and how this can contribute in a well-known method-based psychotherapeutic intervention, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for emotionally unstable adolescents.

We will investigate whether this contributes to increased symptom reduction, increase the experience of social support, treatment retention, strengthen socio-relational function and contribute to an improved quality of life.

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