Trevathan-Minnis, MelissaJohnson, AmyHowie, Ann R.2021-12-042021-12-042021-12-02Trevathan-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/vetsci812030310.3390/vetsci8120303http://hdl.handle.net/10034/626521AAI 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.Licence for this article: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/human–animal interactioncompetenciesethicsanimal welfarehuman–animal studiesArticle2306-7381Veterinary Sciences2021-12-04