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SHSS Launches New Course in Equine Assisted Family Therapy
(Photo caption: Shelley Green, Ph.D.)
The Graduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences (SHSS) recently launched a new course, Equine Assisted Family Therapy. The course is being offered through the Department of Family Therapy (DFT) in collaboration with Stable Foundations, an equine assisted therapy program in Davie. SHSS professor Shelley Green, Ph.D., who uses equine assisted family therapy and has presented workshops on how horses can be used in clinical work, teaches the course.
Equine assisted therapies are a rapidly growing field both nationally and internationally, and the collaborative program developed in NSU’s family therapy program is the first of its kind to be housed in a nationally accredited family therapy program. Students in the course are taught the basics of equine assisted therapies, and integrate the program’s brief, systemic clinical approach into their work with the horses. On alternating weeks students experience hands-on training with the horses at a 15-acre ranch in Davie, which serves as home for Stable Foundations.
In addition to collaborating on the new course, the staff at Stable Foundations provides clinical services and training for the community, and works closely with NSU faculty who use the ranch as an internship site for master’s and doctoral family therapy students.