About ten girls live at Risingegården's HBV home, most between 14 and 17 years old.
Self-harming behaviors and other difficulties have caused people like Laura Locmele to end up there:
- It was very hard in the beginning, you did not know anyone and did not want to accept the help, but after a while it got better not least thanks to the animals.
Now she feels much stronger, hear more in the segment above.
Different animals help in different ways
For just over ten years, Risingegården has used animals in the treatment and it has worked very well, says the director Åsa Rydin.
She says that encounters with the animals are very anxious and when you sit on the horse, for example, you train leadership and boundaries:
- You can not be in the stable and be angry because the horse feels it immediately.
She thinks that horses and dogs are best when it comes to creating relationships and working with interaction, but that other animals such as rabbits, guinea pigs and sheep are good at building self-esteem:
- When the animals come to you, you feel chosen in a way that these girls may not have felt among people.