ISCO Specialization 2269.9.1 Animal Assisted Therapist
From Open Risk Manual
Definition
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.
Essential Skills
- Develop A Collaborative Therapeutic Relationship
- Animal Therapy
- Select Therapy Animals
- Instruct Animals For Therapy Purposes
- Provide Health Education
- Recruit Animal Handlers
- Maintain Healthcare User Data Confidentiality
- Assess The Patient'S Therapeutic Needs
- Interact With Healthcare Users
- Listen Actively
Optional Skills
- Evaluation Of Psychological Performance
- Behavioural Therapy
- Work With Healthcare Users' Social Network
- Apply Organisational Techniques
- Show Responsibility
- Sociology
- Employ Foreign Languages In Care
- Refer Healthcare Users
- Human Psychological Development
- Contribute To Continuity Of Health Care
- Palliative Care
- Performance Diagnosis
- Respond To Changing Situations In Health Care
- Use Communication Techniques
- Control Animal Movement
- Employ Foreign Languages For Health-Related Research
- Deal With Emergency Care Situations
- Handle Patient Trauma
- Promote Animal Welfare
- Animal Behaviour
Alternative Names
- Animal Assisted Intvervention Professional
