Brown Pony Series: Book Two: Risk Management & Safety in Hippotherapy

Who cares about risk and safety in hippotherapy? There are many "stakeholders" who will find the information in this book helpful: those considering implementing hippotherapy, therapists in this field, students planning for a career utilizing the treatment strategy of hippotherapy, facility and horse owners partnering to offer hippotherapy, staff who assist with sessions, client families who participate in hippotherapy, the insurance industry, other researchers and the horse community in general. Brown Pony Series Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy, illuminates years of research both published and unpublished that has been completed by the author on safety and managing risks when combining horses and people with disabilities in a therapy milieu. NOTE: The Hippotherapy Safety Survey ended ten years of data collection in January of 2017. This book was updated on September 1, 2017 with a summary of the ten years of safety data in a newly added Appendix II.