Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Riding: Practicing Social Workers and Undergraduate Social Work Students

This study attempted to explore, through the use of surveys, what practicing social workers and undergraduate student social workers know about hippotherapy and therapuetic riding. In addition, this study made an effort to examine what the key means of learning participants had when it came to these alternative methods of therapy. The hypothesis that undergraduate social work students would collectively not be familiar with hippotherapy or therapuetic riding and that practicing social workers would have a better knowledge base in this area, was tested through the use of surveys. These surveys were distributed in a handful of undergraduate social work classes and among a convenience sample of social work agencies in the providence area. A total number of 21 surveys were collected and analyzed using the computer program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Using percentages that were found by creating frequency tables, it was determined that 44.4% of undergraduate social work students had heard of these alternative therapies compared to 41.7% of professional social workers. These findings were not consistent with the predictions. What was consistent with the study’s predictions was that practicing social workers and undergraduate social work students indicated their community to be their primary means of learning about hippotherapy and therapuetic riding

The Argument for Oral Advocacy

Considered a vanishing breed, skilled practitioners of the oral argument command attention from Moot Court to the Supreme Court

What Is (And Isn\u27t) Fair Use in Music Sampling?

Fair use is a principle embedded in copyright law which permits -- under circumstances governed by a set of considerations commonly known as the four factors -- the borrowing of material from copyrighted works to create new works. Created for Fair Use Week 2018, this poster highlights the principle as it has applied to three controversial cases involving music sampling. For each case, the observer is given the essential facts; shown which of the four factors (represented by icons) were most central; and told the real-world outcome of each case. As an interactive display, the poster covered each Outcome column with a flap, requesting the observer to make a guess as to the outcome before confirming it. Via a listening stand near the poster, observers were also enabled to hear excerpts from the contested works. Those excerpts may be accessed at:http://musselmanlibrary.org/fair-use-week/2018/samples.htm