Assisted therapy course with dogs: dog -assisted therapy monitor (university degree + 8 ECTS credits)

With the passage of time, it has been perfected and discovering new trends in the assisted intervention with animals. Gradually, dog -assisted therapy has been one of the most used, thanks to the numerous advantages with interaction with people. With this monitor course in dog -assisted therapy, the necessary knowledge to be a professional in dog -assisted therapy can be acquired, improving the quality of the different therapies and increasing the satisfaction and results of the people involved and their relatives.

- Know the general features of the assisted intervention with animals. - Know the professional profiles and the skills they have to have to intervene in dog -assisted therapy. - Deepen knowledge about the behavior and behaviors of dogs. - Obtain basic notions of training with dogs.

This professional exercises their activity in social sectors, such as residences of the elderly, centers with disabled people, prison centers, hospitals and entities of the public and private sphere.

This course of assisted therapy with dogs prepares you to offer quality social intervention, offering a service with the best characteristics and skills to face work with dogs, knowing their social behavior and behavior, valuing unwanted behaviors and eliminating them.

This course of assisted therapy with dogs is aimed at professionals linked to social intervention with animals: psychologists, occupational therapists, education and free time monitors, pedagogues, psychopedagogues, social educators, and all those people who are interested in therapy assisted with dogs.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.