Therapeutic Benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy

Course overview

This workshop has been designed to develop the awareness, knowledge, and skills of helping professionals interested in integrating animal-assisted therapy into practice. This includes therapists, teachers, nurses, or anyone who works with a population that would benefit from incorporating animals into practice. This webinar will include an introduction to canine-assisted and equine-assisted therapy, some legal, ethical, and business considerations for incorporating into practice, and some take-home worksheets with the steps needed to move forward. Active participation will be encouraged as we will work through some sample interventions participants could use with their population of interest. Time for case-specific consultation will also be given.