Postgraduate in animals assisted therapy: Hypotherapy specialist + university degree (8 ECTS credits)

With the passage of time, it has been perfected and discovering new trends in the assisted intervention with animals. Little by little, assisted therapy with horses, also known as hypotherapy or equine therapy, has been one of the most used thanks to the numerous advantages with interaction with people. With this hypotherapy postgraduate, the necessary knowledge can be acquired to be a professional in horses assisted, improving the quality of the different therapies and increasing the satisfaction and results of the people involved and their relatives.

Among the objectives of the Postgraduate Hipotherapy are mainly the following: - Study the basic aspects of animals assisted with animals, including historical evolution and theories. - Know the characteristics of social groups and pathologies that are found more frequently in animals assisted therapies. - Deepen the profile of the professionals assisted by animals and the most important social and communication skills to put them into practice. - Highlight the importance of animal welfare through knowledge of current legislation. - Know the types of therapy that are usually used more regularly such as animal -assisted therapy. - Know the bases and fundamentals of animals assisted therapy. - Distinguish between different types of existing disabilities and analyze their relationship with hypotherapy therapy. - Analyze the benefits and principles of hypotherapy. - Deepen the characteristics of the equestrian world related to hypotherapy, necessary to carry out a session. - Knowing the laws to which it is accepted is the type of therapies as well as the requirements they must meet. - Know the evolution of special education in recent decades. - Learn the different concepts of needs that have emerged throughout the time and know how to differentiate them. - Know the identification and assessment process of educational needs. - To guide both students, family and other professionals in the educational process. - Know what types of educational response can students be offered both at the center, classroom, etc. - Knowing how to intervene with students who present specific educational support needs.

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.

Thanks to the hypotherapy postgraduate you can prepare to offer quality social intervention, offering a service with the best characteristics and skills to face work with horses, knowing their social behavior and behavior, valuing unwanted behaviors and eliminating them.

This hypotherapy postgraduate is addressed to students and professionals linked to social intervention with animals: psychologists, occupational therapists, education and free time monitors, pedagogues, psychopedagogues, social educators, as well as all those people who are interested in animals assisted with animals, and more specifically in hypotherapy.

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.