What Does an Animal Therapist Do?

Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) is an animal-based medium that improves or maintains the physical condition of people who are ill or disabled through human-to-animal contact, or helps them strengthen their interaction with the outside world and adapt to it. Society, the process of promoting rehabilitation.

Animal adjuvant therapy

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Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)

Animal adjuvant therapy, which will meet certain conditions

Animal-assisted therapy uses animals that have undergone basic obedience training and special screening and are in good health. They must undergo rigorous screening, including screening for health checks, immunizations, animal temperament screening, animal skill screening, and more.

Animal health screening needs to be performed by qualified veterinarians according to specific projects, and the main is to avoid the occurrence of human-animal common infectious diseases; while animal temperament and skill screening needs to be performed by qualified animal screeners, and the main is to select animals suitable for the treatment situation To safeguard the well-being of both the patient and the animal.

The conditions of the place where the animal-assisted treatment is performed need to consider the following four levels:

1. Improve the quality of life of patients;

2. Become a method for patient health promotion;

3. Improve the care quality of caregivers;

4. Strengthen the curative effect of the disabled

5. Become an effective educational medium in the process of treating the physically and mentally handicapped to reduce the workload of the therapists.

In the early 1980s, animal adjuvant treatment methods attracted public attention. Since then, many psychological studies have shown that living with animals may bring benefits to human physical and mental health, such as reducing loneliness and depression, providing social support, reducing stress, improving life happiness, etc., and even help lower cholesterol. And triglycerides.

In 2012, animal-assisted therapies have been used in the treatment of various diseases, such as

In April 2013, an explosion occurred in Boston, USA. The horror scene of the explosion cast a shadow over many Boston residents. After the incident, five professionally trained golden retrievers came to the hospital where the injured in the Boston bombings were, accompanied the injured, and listened to their confession.

Golden retriever heads to Boston to appease wounded

The five golden retrievers received professional training at a church charity in Illinois. Two of them, Eddie and Maggie, have accompanied children there after the shooting at Kangzhou Elementary School. .

In the ward, these dogs docilely cling to the injured in bed. When the wounded saw the dogs, they talked about the fear of the explosion and the dogs became loyal listeners. The injured said the dogs brought them joy. ^[2]