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The Conversation: Therapy Dogs go to College
心理治疗狗帮助大学生减压
Ok, so you are in charge of the resident advisors there at Miller Hall.
好的，这么说你在Miller Hall负责居民顾问问题？
Right.
对。
Now you've only been there this one semester so this is your first experience with students undergoing the pressure of finals, right?
现在只是你在那里的第一个学期，所以这是你第一次跟遭遇期末考试压力的学生打交道，是吗？
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大学一名本科生，曾经经历了八次期末考试，这次是第九次。NYU里面的学术环境压力非常大。所以我首次开办了这个项目。
And when you were at NYU, what was your first exposure to the dogs, being brought and helped relieve the pressure of finals?
当你在NYU的时候，你第一次接触心理治疗狗，帮助缓解期末考试的压力是什么情况？
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.
大二和大三的学习生活非常有压力。每周你只有一个小时的时间和狗接触，非常简单，非常独特，能够吸引注意力。效果非常好。当我被那里雇佣的时候，我非常想拓展该项目，扩大范围。
How did it work, you brought in one dog, two dogs, a hundred dogs, a thousand dogs, what was ,what was the process?
具体是怎么操作的，你引入一条狗，两条狗，一百条狗，一千条狗，具体的过程是怎样的？
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.
其具体过程是和一个叫做Dog-Bones的心理治疗狗组织合作。我们要做的是在10月份，期中考试高峰期任务最繁重的时候，我们一次引入60条狗，每两天的时间内总共有12至16人。
And the students were doing what, just pat the dogs, just sort of hang out with dogs?
那学生们做什么？轻轻地拍打抚摸狗狗，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。一些学生喜欢拍狗，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，做自己喜欢做的事情，但是甚至那些没有真正接触狗的人也能感受到乐趣。这是趣味环境的一部分。
And you believe that it is effective in reducing the stress and strain of finals or just life?
你相信，这对于缓解期末考试压力或生活压力非常有效？
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.
我坚决相信对任何压力都有效。所以他们在医院和小学也是这么做的。总的来说，在期中考试或期末考试等学习压力非常大的时候抽出时间进行任何形式的休息都好，甚至在两三天的学习任务中抽出半个小时的时间走一走，爬一下楼梯，把你的思维转向不同的事情，对于缓解压力来说都非常有效。
You happened to have any dogs on hand perchance right now?
你今天身边有狗吗？
We do, you want to shift it over?
是的，我们要看一看吗？
Yeah, let's have a look. And who do we have here, Carrie?
是的，让我们看看。这是谁，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.
这一只狗刚好在我面前的，棕白相间的，他的名字是Sally，今年五岁了。我左边的是Stella，今年两岁了。
And they didn't mind being man handled or person handled by all these different students?
他们不介意每天被不同的学生拴着牵着玩耍吗？
They were really really good. They were very good and they loved their bellies rubbed and they loved getting treats from the kids.
他们非常好。他们喜欢接受腹部按摩，喜欢孩子们的照顾。
Ok, so maybe we can persuade Congress to allow some dogs on the Florida House, or the Senate and settle those people down.
或许我们应该税负国会让国会或其他政府部门引入一些狗，让政客们安静下来。
Thank you very much and appreciate your time.
非常感谢你抽时间参加我们的节目。
Thank you so much.
非常感谢。
