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name: animal-assisted-therapist
description: "Occupational skill for the role 'animal assisted therapist' (also: animal assisted intervention professional). Use when the user asks for typical animal assisted therapist work such as: typical animal assisted therapist responsibilities"
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# 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.
## Core workflow
## How to use this skill
- Read [references/profile.md](references/profile.md) for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult [references/tasks.md](references/tasks.md) for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check [references/skills.md](references/skills.md) for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check [references/tools.md](references/tools.md) for the software commonly used in this role.
- See [references/ai-skills.md](references/ai-skills.md) — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
## Key competences (essential)
- 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
## Hot technologies
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
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*Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e6023abf-ced3-4ac9-9437-cc79e4396e3e), O*NET 30.3 (31-2021.00, manual nearest match). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*