Psychological Assessment And Therapeutic Riding: A Systematic Review

• Autor(a) principal: Zamo, Renata de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Trentini, Clarissa Marceli
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/8453
• topic: psicologia; equoterapia; revisão sistemática; avaliação psicológica; terapia assistida por cavalos; psicología; equitación terapéutica; revisión sistemática; evaluación psicológica; terapía assistida por cavallos

This paper aims at investigating empirical researches on therapeutic riding published between 2004 and 2014. We seek to verify characteristics of the samples, psychological constructs assessed, assessment tools, and psychological effects attributed to the processing of therapeutic riding. We analyzed twenty empirical studies, the vast majority of them were held with children and adolescents, six studies were done with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The measurement techniques mostly used were: interviewing techniques; behavioral observation; questionnaires; quality of life scales; functionality scales and specific groups scales. The most obvious results of therapeutic riding in the psychological context involved decreased anxiety and gains in social relationship. Gains in cognitive aspects were not clear. Comparing Brazilian and international studies, we have a lack of control group and of reliable measurements in both cases, but Brazil, does not seem to have a psychology culture in use research basedon evidence in therapeutic riding.