Whale Sanctuary Project, Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, Kanab, Utah, USA.
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2021 Jun;77(6):1265-1279. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23110. Epub 2021 Jan 22.
Dolphin-assisted therapy (DAT) is a popular form of animal-assisted therapy for autism spectrum disorders and other psychological conditions.
In this review, our third, we analyze the most recent DAT studies in terms of construct and internal validity criteria to determine if there is empirical support for DAT.
To ensure a systematic review, we searched for peer-reviewed studies on DAT by submitting relevant search terms to Google Scholar from 2007 to 2020, conducted a further search of all DAT papers in several peer-reviewed journals, and reviewed reference sections of DAT articles to ensure a thorough review of the literature between 2007 and the present.
The DAT literature continues to be marked by several weaknesses in both internal and construct validity that preclude confident inferences regarding the intervention's efficacy.
There is still insufficient evidence that DAT has therapeutic value.
海豚辅助疗法（DAT）是自闭症谱系障碍和其他心理疾病的动物辅助疗法中一种很受欢迎的形式。
在这篇综述中，作为我们的第三次分析，我们根据结构和内部有效性标准来分析最近的 DAT 研究，以确定是否有 DAT 的实证支持。
为了确保系统的回顾，我们通过向 Google Scholar 提交相关的搜索词，从 2007 年到 2020 年搜索了有关 DAT 的同行评议研究，对几个同行评议期刊中的所有 DAT 论文进行了进一步搜索，并审查了 DAT 文章的参考文献部分，以确保在 2007 年至目前期间对文献进行了彻底的回顾。
DAT 文献在内部和结构有效性方面仍然存在几个弱点，这使得对干预措施的疗效的推断缺乏信心。
仍然没有足够的证据表明 DAT 具有治疗价值。
