2.1 KiB
2.1 KiB
Competences — animal assisted therapist
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e6023abf-ced3-4ac9-9437-cc79e4396e3e).
Essential
- animal therapy (knowledge)
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs (skill/competence)
- assistive instruments (knowledge)
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship (skill/competence)
- instruct animals for therapy purposes (skill/competence)
- interact with healthcare users (skill/competence)
- listen actively (skill/competence)
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality (skill/competence)
- provide health education (skill/competence)
- recruit animal handlers (skill/competence)
- select therapy animals (skill/competence)
Optional
- animal behaviour (knowledge)
- apply organisational techniques (skill/competence)
- behavioural therapy (knowledge)
- contribute to continuity of health care (skill/competence)
- control animal movement (skill/competence)
- deal with emergency care situations (skill/competence)
- evaluation of psychological performance (knowledge)
- handle patient trauma (skill/competence)
- human psychological development (knowledge)
- palliative care (knowledge)
- performance diagnosis (knowledge)
- promote animal welfare (skill/competence)
- refer healthcare users (skill/competence)
- respond to changing situations in health care (skill/competence)
- sociology (knowledge)
- use communication techniques (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages for health-related research (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages in patient care (skill/competence)
- work with healthcare users' social network (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 15 ads, as of 2026-07-08)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- animal-assisted intervention — 20 %
- patient assessment — 20 %
- program planning — 20 %
- therapeutic intervention — 20 %
Methods
- animal-assisted therapy — 20 %