Grief therapy animals (dogs) and their effect on children suffering loss.

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Grief Therapy Animals (Dogs) and Their Effect on Children Suffering Loss
Introduction
Grief is a reaction to any form of loss. Dog loss has distinctive characteristics that may escalate the loss experience and rise in individual’s vulnerability to future stress, particularly children are at high risk to grief. This paper will delve into the analysis of grief therapy for animals; specifically, dogs and their effect on children loss.
Justification
For the working parents, dogs encourage the development of imagination to a child who does not have siblings to play with. Children will stay with the dogs and play games with them and will assist them to develop motor skills. Babies usually creep after a pet or reach out to grab the tail of a dog and most importantly increase the learning process. Children at a younger age are not aware they can feel pain or be hurt by these animals. Looking at a dog give birth, will teach them something about a life beginning and the death of a dog about life ending. It can assist a child to learn how to subsist his or her own life (Altschiller 10).
Academic Objective
The research will contribute to health effects of pet owners and in a survey conducted a sample of 1000 Australians over 16 years of age, dog and cat owners experience fewer doctor visits and less likely to take medication than non-pet owners. People who continually owned a pet where the healthiest group was according to a group questioned in Australia and Germany.

Another approach is to focus on a specific subpopulation that has well-defined health or social condition, for example, families where children have left home that can contribute a better comparison between pet owners and non-pet owners (Webb 57-77).
Research Questions
What is the impact exposure to a stressful or traumatic event on the job?
How is the group presentation of stress or trauma activity?

Works Cited
Altschiller, Donald. Animal-Assisted Therapy. Greenwood, 2011.
Webb, Nancy Boyd. Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents In Crisis.