Au g u st 2015

H o r se s a n d Pe o p l e m e e t i n Ta i w a n

ALSO I N T H I S I SSUE

X V Co n g r e ss 1 , 2

Fr o m t h e P r e s i d e n t 3

H ETR I CS Se m i n a r s 4

H o r se Ass i s t e d T h e r a p y R e sea r c h 5

XV Con g r ess

Horses and people met in Taiwan June 22 through 25 at the XV Con-gress, the ęrst ever held in Asia, on the campus of A letheia University in Danshui, a suburb of Taipei. The program opened w ith an ad-dress by a special guest of the Con-gress, Laurentia Tan (Singapore) who won two bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Para Equestrian Games. Other keynote speakers were Dr. Andrew McLean (A ustralia) on “ Training Principles that Arise from Learning Theory” ; Dr. Gabriela Wagner (A ustria) on “ Loosening-up, Swinging, Rotat-ing: How to Rain the Physioball for BeĴer Riding” ; Joseph Dreissen (New Zealand) on “ With Troubled Students, The Wise Instructor Lets the Horse Do the Work” ; and Julia BaĴ ams (A ustralia) on “ The Use of the Pressure Pad for Coaching and Research.” Workshop speakers followed w ith presentations by Drs. McLean and Wagner and Roselein Wilkes (New Zealand). The second day of the Congress

featured a visit to stables outside Danshui w ith demonstrations by the speakers. The third and fourth day contained forums and scien-tięc and research Forums back at the University. As bookends to the very varied and full program of events, a gala dinner w ith native music and dancing was held on the ęrst night and an equally un-forgeĴable farewell dinner (w ith infectious native dancing that the Congress participants were unable to resist) took place on the last night of the Congress, w ith awards of appreciation given and a festive draw ing of raĝ e prizes. The Congress was thoroughly and superbly produced by the Or-ganizing CommiĴ ee chaired by Uta RindĚeisch-Wu, the Depart-ment of Sports Management of A leitheia University, and the members of the two local Federa-tion members, the Chinese Taipei Equestrian Association and Qi Zhi Vocational Training Centre.

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HETI Newsl etter — 2 — August 2015

At left, the 2014 HETI Execu-tive and friends: From left, Marie-Therese Kuypers, Uta RindĚeisch-Wu, George Jones, Sanna Matilla-Rautiainen, Gisela Heimsath-Rhodes, Joan-na Dzwonkowska, Lorenzo Lucarelli, Ann O’Shallie, Jen-nifer Dixon-Clegg and Vera Horne. At the Riding Stables: Below, (left) Dr. Andrew McLean and Julia BaĴams (right) demon-strate horse training.

At the XV Congress: Above, from left, special guest Laurentia Tan; outgoing President Ann O’Shallie addresses the Congress; Uta RindĚeisch-Wu welcomes delegates and the Gala Dinner where guests were entertained by the children of Zhongping Elemen-tary School.

Dear Members: I have the honour of writing this leĴer to our members. In Taiwan I was elected to be the President for the coming three years. Thank you to my successors for leading the way before me and having formalized and essentially completed a HETI mission statement. Collaboration, Shared Knowledge, Expertise and Visibil ity are the words that describe my aims in the upcoming three years. I´m certain that our new board members Jil l Carey (Ireland, Treas-urer), Irene Kapari (Greece), Werner Wecker (Germany), Roswitha Zink

(Austria), Jeong-Yi Kwon (South Korea) who were elected for the three year term in April 8, 2015 [and its continuing members Vera Horne (Vice-President, Brasil) and Lorenzo Lucarelli (Spain)] together w ill col-laborate, share know ledge and ex-pertise and help HETI to be more visible. The responsibility for success lies on you, our members. Keep for-warding news and information to this newsleĴer so that everyone can be aware of what is happening inter-nationally. I also urge you to contin-ue providing HETI w ith results of research for consideration in the peer-reviewed Scientięc and Educa-tional Journal of Therapeutic Riding. Remember that our international calendar is there to list courses given in your country. A ll this helps us to be a stronger and more respected organization. Our board w ill be in

touch personally w ith our members. Each person on the Board w ill be taking on a particular task. I am happy of the outcome of the Congress in Taiwan. Thank you Uta RindĚeisch-Wu, for your enor-mous work and eěort to create a scientięcally brill iant and warm at-mosphere w hich invited socializing and mingling. I enjoyed the morning Tai Chi sessions w ith the Master, which kept my body Ěexible during the Congress sessions. The planning of the Congress 2018 has already begun and the website is open: www.heti2018.org Don´t miss the opportunity to join us there! With all the best, Sanna MaĴ ila

HETI Newsl etter — 3 — August 2015

Fr om t h e Pr esi d en t

Ea r l y m o r n i n g Ta i Ch i a t t h e X V Co n g r ess

HETI Newsl etter — 4 — August 2015

The Therapeutic Riding Center of Serres (KETHIS) [also known as HETRICS— Ed.] is a nonproęt or-ganization created in 2005. The cen-ter implements numerous therapeu-tic programs for people w ith disabil i-ties. Therapeutic (or adaptive) riding is beneęcial for children and adults who suěer from physical and/or mental conditions We are happy to announce that two seminars have been successfully concluded. H ippotherapy and Thera-peutic Riding were the programs that took place in our premises. The main concern of (KETHIS) is the dissemination of H ippotherapy and Therapeutic Riding based on HETI principles. The ęrst seminar was actually the sum of part-seminars in Training Therapeuutic riding. Specialised tutors, instructors of physical education, psychologists and riding instructors, aĴ ended this seminar w ith great interest and gained specialized knowledge to help people w ith autism, mental re-tardation and mental i llnesses. We would like to thank the speakers of this Seminar w ho won over the audience: MarieĴ a Schulz w ith her huge experience and Maria Liapi the highly trained and very well organized psychologist of TRAGR We are very proud for our own people who are highly trained and have a huge experience especially in the ground of autism: Chrysa Karra and N iki Vogiaĵ i. Pomes, A lpen Star and Savvina our lovely horses, had the ęrst part role. The second seminar was Level I Hippotherapy Treatment Principles Ed-ucation Course from the American H ippotherapy Association (AHA). It lasted four days but it took several months of talks in order to reach all the criteria and cover all the prereq-uisites of HETI.

It is a great honor for our Centre to be a part of this community and organize an international event like this w hich is globally accepted and certięed. A t the end we had aĴendants from all Greece and also from Dubai, Malta and the United Kingdom, a total of 20 aĴ endees. They varied from physiotherapists, speech thera-pists, occupational therapists and doctors. The seminar speakers Pippa Hodge Gina Taylor from USA and Canada, were highly trained, very

well organized and w ith absolute synchronization between them. They organized the seminar in a perfect way, and they gave all the necessary details in a very comforta-ble way. We have to state also that the therapist teams were magnięcent. We are looking forward to the Level II AHA seminar in our premis-es to conclude the basis of specilisa-tion in H ippotherapy.

—Stavrula Kiriakopoulou

Long term volunteer for RDA Aus-tralia, Ann Sands passed away on July 25 in Port Kennedy, Western A ustralia. A nn was an inspiration and mentor to many as a founding member of Riding for the Disabled in Western A ustralia. She is survived by her two sons, Richard and David. Right: Ann Sands, right, with Princess Anne during her visit to Australia in 1987.

Ob i t u a r y : An n Sa n d s

H ET RI CS Gi v e s T w o Se m i n a r s

Su p p o r t i n g P e t a l s

Fl o r a l Ne t w o r k

Su p p o r t s H ET I a s w e l l .

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HETI Newsl etter — 5 — August 2015

Background Horse Assisted Therapy (HAT) is a growing complementary health ac-tivity w ith l iĴ le supporting empirical evidence for the often-claimed bene-ęts to physical and psychological health, including substance abuse related problems. In 2011, Oslo University Hospital (OUS) established a multi-dimensional project to explore the impact of HAT on treatment and outcomes of young substance users, and to contribute to the HAT evi-dence base. The project has quantita-tive and qualitative studies. It is part of the Youth Addiction Treatment Evaluation Project (YATEP). A t ISAM 2012 and the First Nor-dic Research Seminar on Equine As-sisted Therapy, we reported results from a Preliminary Study of 126 cas-es using univariate analysis of HAT and treatment outcome. HAT partici-pants had an almost 4 times beĴer chance of successful treatment out-come than those who had not partici-pated in the horse assisted therapy program (OR 3�6, CI 1�6–8�0, p=<0�001).

HAT in the Popular M edia Rus & Sumsfunn articles

Feb. 2013Å ride seg av avhengighet: Minister for Health visits OUS Å ride seg ut av avhengighet < Oct 2013 Å ri ut av avhengigheten hĴ p://www.rus.no/id/820.0 (for English version see hĴp://www.frdi.net/pdfs/NewsleĴ ers/May2013_revised.pdf published in the HETI NewsleĴ er, May 2013)

Fi lm and TV Horse Medicine Series Trailer 2013 hĴ ps://vimeo.com/73706761 The NRK interview 2014: hĴp://www.famo.no/TSB/AnnKern/vimeo.html TV2 interview, Dec 2014: hĴ p://www.tv2.no/v/868850/

HAT Research Two posters:

Quantitative presented at ISAM Con-ference 2012 - hĴp://aushf.no/ęles/Rid-ing_out_of_addiction__HAT_Poster_3.pdf Qualitative – presented at Horses4H umans Conference 2013 hĴ ps://www.facebook.com/1556975314519357/photos/a.1575701205980101.1073741828.1556975314519357/1575698975980324/?type=1&theater

4 M A theses Eěekten av hesteassistert terapi på symptomer på angst og depresjon hos unge med rusmiddelavhengighet PDF] from uio.nouio.no Horse Assisted Therapy and Self-esteem PDF] from uio.nouio.no Participants’ experience of horse-assisted therapy in addiction treatment. PDF] from uio.nouio.no RCT registration: hĴ ps://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01795755?term=HAT&rank=1

Resources The horses are owned by the Lions Clubs of Oslo & Slemdal hĴp://www.lions.no/

The project received funding from the Swedish-Norwegian Foundation for Equine Research hĴ p://hastforskning.se/ and the Norwe-gian Research Council hĴ p://www.forskningsradet.no/ Other costs met by the Department of Addiction Treatment – Youth, Seksjon rus- og avhengighetsbehan-dling ung Research supervision/advice from SERAF hĴ p://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/forskning/sentre/seraf/

Contacts Stallen – JeaneĴ e Lysell jealys@ous-hf.no or Kristine Dihle Borgen krdbor@ous-hf.no Research - Ann Kern-Godal ann@godal.com

Osl o Un i v e r s i t y H o sp i t a l H o r se Ass i s t e d Th e r a p y (H AT) Re sea r c h