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Recommendations for Transdisciplinary Professional Competencies and Ethics for Animal-Assisted Therapies and Interventions

Trevathan-Minnis, Melissa
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Johnson, Amy
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Howie, Ann R.
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University of Chester
Goddard College; University of Chester
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2021-12-02
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AAI is a transdisciplinary field that has grown exponentially in recent decades. This growth has not always been synergistic across fields, creating a need for more consistent language and standards, a call for which many professionals in the field have made. Under the umbrella of human−animal interactions (HAI) is animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), which have a more goal-directed intention with animals who have been assessed for therapeutic, educational, or vocational work. The current article offers a brief history and efficacy of HAI, describes the limitations and gaps within the field and recommends a new set of competencies and guidelines that seek to create some of the needed common language and standards for AAI work to address these limitations.
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Trevathan-Minnis, M., Johnson, A., & Howie, A. R. (2021). Recommendations for transdisciplinary professional competencies and ethics for animal-assisted therapies and interventions. Veterinary Sciences, 8(12), e303. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci8120303
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Veterinary Sciences
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/626521
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10.3390/vetsci8120303
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2306-7381
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