animal assisted therapist
ISCO: 2269. Skills: 30. Essential: 11.
Essential skills
- 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
Supporting skills
- 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