Sam the dog arrives at the pediatric emergency room in Cagliari. The session, authorized by the parents, lasted about 45 minutes and involved 8 young patients.
The children's reactions were all positive, starting with the reduction of fear. The use of animals as an aid to normal medical therapies can be traced back to ancient times. It was only in the second half of the last century that the American child psychiatrist, Boris M. Levinson, used the term Pet-Therapy, today replaced in Italy by "animal-assisted interventions"