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The Conversation: Therapy Dogs go to College
心理治療狗幫助大學生減壓
Ok, so you are in charge of the resident advisors there at Miller Hall.
好的，這么說你在Miller Hall負責居民顧問問題？
Right.
對。
Now you've only been there this one semester so this is your first experience with students undergoing the pressure of finals, right?
現在只是你在那里的第一個學期，所以這是你第一次跟遭遇期末考試壓力的學生打交道，是嗎？
I mean I was an undergraduate for four years in NYU and I went through finals for 8 terms, 9 counting this one. NYU, like Tufts, is a high pressure academic environment. That's why I first started this program.
我的意思是，我是NYU大學一名本科生，曾經經歷了八次期末考試，這次是第九次。NYU里面的學術環境壓力非常大。所以我首次開辦了這個項目。
And when you were at NYU, what was your first exposure to the dogs, being brought and helped relieve the pressure of finals?
當你在NYU的時候，你第一次接觸心理治療狗，幫助緩解期末考試的壓力是什么情況？
It was in those of my sophomore or junior year and our building did a stress day. They had just an hour a week you could have puppy and it was so simple and easy and unique to put on and it drew a lot of attention. It worked truly well. So when I was hired here, I really wanna to expand the program, do it on a much larger scale.
大二和大三的學習生活非常有壓力。每周你只有一個小時的時間和狗接觸，非常簡單，非常獨特，能夠吸引注意力。效果非常好。當我被那里雇傭的時候，我非常想拓展該項目，擴大范圍。
How did it work, you brought in one dog, two dogs, a hundred dogs, a thousand dogs, what was ,what was the process?
具體是怎么操作的，你引入一條狗，兩條狗，一百條狗，一千條狗，具體的過程是怎樣的？
The way it actually works is we worked with a therapy dog organization called Dog-Bones. So what we do is actually in October, you know, at the height of mid-terms of task. We had both 60 dogs at a time coming in, a total maybe 12-16 people over 2-day-period.
其具體過程是和一個叫做Dog-Bones的心理治療狗組織合作。我們要做的是在10月份，期中考試高峰期任務最繁重的時候，我們一次引入60條狗，每兩天的時間內總共有12至16人。
And the students were doing what, just pat the dogs, just sort of hang out with dogs?
那學生們做什么？輕輕地拍打撫摸狗狗，只是和狗待在一起？
Yeah, it’s kind of funny, some students like to pat the dogs and stay right up on and especially ones that have dogs at their home or dog people, and someone just sit on the peripheries and talk with each other and take pictures and do whatever they want to do, but even of those people that aren't really patting the dogs or rid up in front of the center, are still having the fun. It's still part of really fun environment.
是的，非常有趣。一些學生喜歡拍狗，和狗待在一起，尤其是一些家里有狗的人，一些人只是坐在那里，和其他人聊天，拍照片，做自己喜歡做的事情，但是甚至那些沒有真正接觸狗的人也能感受到樂趣。這是趣味環境的一部分。
And you believe that it is effective in reducing the stress and strain of finals or just life?
你相信，這對于緩解期末考試壓力或生活壓力非常有效？
I absolutely believe it is effective for anything. It’s why they do it in hospitals and in elementary schools. In just general, having any kind of break from studying during really stressful periods like mid-terms and finals where you can sometimes find yourself for 2 or 3 days at a time walk into one task. Taking a half hour out of that, walking around, coming downstairs, completely changing your mindset into something different is really effective in combating some of that stress.
我堅決相信對任何壓力都有效。所以他們在醫院和小學也是這么做的。總的來說，在期中考試或期末考試等學習壓力非常大的時候抽出時間進行任何形式的休息都好，甚至在兩三天的學習任務中抽出半個小時的時間走一走，爬一下樓梯，把你的思維轉向不同的事情，對于緩解壓力來說都非常有效。
You happened to have any dogs on hand perchance right now?
你今天身邊有狗嗎？
We do, you want to shift it over?
是的，我們要看一看嗎？
Yeah, let's have a look. And who do we have here, Carrie?
是的，讓我們看看。這是誰，Carrie？
Hi, this is, er, the one right in front of me, the brown and white one, his name's Sally and he is 5 year old. And then the one to my left is Stella and she is 2 years old.
這一只狗剛好在我面前的，棕白相間的，他的名字是Sally，今年五歲了。我左邊的是Stella，今年兩歲了。
And they didn't mind being man handled or person handled by all these different students?
他們不介意每天被不同的學生拴著牽著玩耍嗎？
They were really really good. They were very good and they loved their bellies rubbed and they loved getting treats from the kids.
他們非常好。他們喜歡接受腹部按摩，喜歡孩子們的照顧。
Ok, so maybe we can persuade Congress to allow some dogs on the Florida House, or the Senate and settle those people down.
或許我們應該稅負國會讓國會或其他政府部門引入一些狗，讓政客們安靜下來。
Thank you very much and appreciate your time.
非常感謝你抽時間參加我們的節目。
Thank you so much.
非常感謝。
