Animal assisted therapist
Also searched as: Experto en terapia asistida con animales
Code 2269.9.1
What does a Animal assisted therapist do?
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.
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Essential skills
Knowledge
- animal therapy
Skills and competences
- instruct animals for therapy purposes
- recruit animal handlers
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- listen actively
- interact with healthcare users
- select therapy animals
Transversal competences
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- provide health education
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences