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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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 %