Specialist course in assisted therapy with marine animals

This course in assisted therapy with marine animals or course in assisted therapy with marine animals offers you a specialized training of this matter. Currently, there is a certainty that pets (the most watched are dog, cat and horse) provide multiple benefits to caregivers, becoming co -librapeutas in preventive therapy of the treatment of different diseases. This course aims to focus on the contributions offered by marine animals, highlighting the presence of marine dolphins and lions.

- Know the fundamental aspects of animals assisted therapy to be able to use it in professional practice. - Study the main theories about animals assisted therapy to better understand their contributions and benefits. - Describe the social groups and pathologies to which the assisted therapy with animals is directed. - Understand the patterns structures those of marine animals, especially the main characteristics of marine mammals that are the most used in said therapy. - Study the main benefit of carrying out therapy in a marine environment, that is, studying what talasotherapy means. - Knowing the characteristic features of the dolphins, taking into account that it is the main animal that is chosen in this type of therapies, and then describe what dolphinotherapy or dolphins assisted therapy consists of. - Describe the characteristics of marine lions, and explain how assisted therapy with marine lions is carried out.

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 in assisted therapy with marine animals or course in assisted therapy with marine animals prepares to know the main foundations on marine therapy, knowing the marine medium and its benefits in therapy and studying the main characteristics of dolphins and marine lions since they are the main animals used in assisted therapy with marine animals.

This course of assisted therapy with marine animals 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 animals assisted therapy.

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.