animal assisted therapist
Animal assisted therapists provide support to individuals with cognitive, motoric, or social-emotional disabilities through animal assisted intervention. They involve pets and domesticated animals in a specific intervention plan such as therapy, education, and human service, and aim to restore and maintain the patients` well-being and recovery.
Also called: animal assisted intervention professional
- 11
- essential skills
- 19
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
11- animal therapy
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- assistive instruments
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- instruct animals for therapy purposes
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- provide health education
- recruit animal handlers
- select therapy animals
Optional skills
19- animal behaviour
- apply organisational techniques
- behavioural therapy
- contribute to continuity of health care
- control animal movement
- deal with emergency care situations
- evaluation of psychological performance
- handle patient trauma
- human psychological development
- palliative care
- performance diagnosis
- promote animal welfare
- refer healthcare users
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sociology
- use communication techniques
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- work with healthcare users' social network
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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