Mental Health and Well-being in Animals

The past few decades have seen a virtual explosion of scientific research in the area of cognition, emotions, suffering, and mental states in animals.

Contributors.

Preface.

Foreword (Roger S. Fouts).

Part I: Foundations of Animal Mental Health and Well Being.

1. On Understanding Animal Mentation (Bernard E. Rollin).

2. The Question of Animal Emotions: An Ethological Perspective (Marc Bekoff).

3. The Experience of Pleasure in Animals (Michel Cabanac).

4. The Science of Suffering (Marian Stamp Dawkins).

5. Affective Social Neuroscience Approaches o Understanding Core Emotional Feelings in Animals (Jaak Panksepp).

Part II: Emotional Distress, Suffering, and Mental Illness.

6. Animal Boredom: Understanding the Tedium of Confined Lives (Francoise Wemelsfelder).

7. Stress, Distress, and Emotion: Distinctions and Implications for Mental Well Being (Franklin D. McMillan).

8. Interrelationships Between Mental and Physical Health: The Mind Body Connection (Michael W. Fox).

9. Mental Illness in Animals The Need for Precision in Terminology and Diagnostic Criteria (Karen L. Overall).

10. Treatment of Emotional Distress and Disorders Non Pharmacologic Methods (John C. Wright, Pamela J. Reid and Zack Rozier).

11. Treatment of Emotional Distress and Disorders Pharmacologic Methods (Amy R. Marder and J. Michelle Posate).

12. Emotional Maltreatment in Animals (Franklin D. McMIllan).

Part III: Mental Wellness.

13. The Concept of Quality of Life in Animals (Franklin D. McMillan).

14. Giving Power to Animals (Hal Markowitz and Katherine Eckert).

15. Psychological Well Being in Animals (Suzanne Hetts, Dan Estep, Amy R. Marder).

16. Do Animals Experience True Happiness (Franklin D. McMillan).

17. Animal Happiness: A Philosophical View (Bernard e. Rollin).

Part IV: Special Populations.

18. Mental Well Being in Farm Animals: How They Think and Feel (Temple Grandin).

19. The Mental Health of Laboratory Animals (Lesley King and Andrew N. Rowan).

20. Animal Well Being and Research Outcomes (Hal Markowitz and Gregory B. Timmel).

21. Mental Health Issues in Captive Birds (Lynne Seibert).

Index.