Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Pet/Human Bonding: Applications, Conceptual and Research Issues, Marvin B. Sussman; Chapter 2 Pets as Family Members, Ann Ottney Cain; Chapter 3 The Social Meanings of Pets: Alternative Roles for Companion Animals, Jean E. Veevers; Chapter 4 Initiation and Maintenance of the Human-Animal Bond: Familial Roles from a Learning Perspective, Clark M. Brickel; Chapter 5 The Companion Animal in the Context of the Family System, Cecelia J. Soares; Chapter 6 Pets and the Socialization of Children, Michael Robin, Robert ten Bensel; Chapter 7 The Preadolescent/Pet Bond and Psychosocial Development, Janet Haggerty Davis, Anne McCreary Juhasz; Chapter 8 Pets, Early Adolescents, and Families, Anita Miller Covert, Alice Phipps Whiren, Joanne Keith, Christine Nelson; Chapter 9 Pets and Family Relationships Among Nursing Home Residents, Joel Savishinsky; Chapter 10 The Death of a Pet: Human Responses to the Breaking of the Bond, Kathleen V. Cowles; Chapter 11 The Effects on Family Members and Functioning After the Death of a Pet, Betty J. Carmack; Chapter 12 Health, Aquariums, and the Non-Institutionalized Elderly, Carol Cutler Riddick; Chapter 13 Life in the Treehouse: Pet Therapy as Family Metaphor and Self-Dialogue, Eugene Rochberg-Halton; Chapter 14 Health Benefits of Pets for Families, Erika Friedmann, Sue A. Thomas; Chapter 15 The Pet in the Military Family at Transfer Time: It Is No Small Matter, Lynn J. Anderson; Chapter 16 A Historical, Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Animal and Human Social Ecosystem, Kris Jeter;