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Animal Assisted Interventions
Animal Assisted Interventions
Animal Assisted Interventions (IAA) is the term that replaced the old term Pet therapy.
The replacement was deemed necessary to broaden the idea related to the activities: it is not only a therapy and the recipient is not necessarily a patient.
Today we recognise Animal Assisted Activities (AAA), Animal Assisted Education (AAE) and Animal Assisted Therapies (AAT), which are regulated at national level by guidelines that have now been implemented throughout Italy.
AAA
AAA
These are interventions with typically recreational and socialising purposes. The main goals are often
improvement of the quality of life
correct human-animal interaction
The recipients are therefore usually groups.
AAE
AAE
These are educational interventions. The aim is to promote, activate and support the resources and potential for individual growth and planning, relationships and social integration of people in difficulty. The goals change from project to project and are defined on the basis of the specific needs that emerge during the need-analysis phase.
Recipients are often small groups or individuals.
AAT
AAT
These are therapeutic interventions for which a medical prescription is required. The aim is therapeutic and is aimed at inducing a change that can improve aspects (at various levels) of the situation the recipient is experiencing at that point in his or her life, given the current bio-psycho-social conditions in which he or she finds him or herself.
The goals are defined on the basis of the recipient's needs, after a thorough data collection and need analysis phase.
Recipients are typically individuals, more rarely small groups.
The operators and the team
The operators and the team
Every IAA project sees the contribution of 4 fundamental figures, all expert in AAis:
the project manager
the intervention referee
the animal coadjutor
the veterinary
And then we can't forget the animal involved.
.:: Me ...
.:: Me ...
I completed my training in 2013.
I am now recognised as
project manager,
intervention referee
dog coadjutor
(look me up on the digital pet portal).
... and Albert ::.
... and Albert ::.
Meticcio, father unknown, he was born in 2013. He is chipped and insured.He underwent basic education and then specific education to work in AAIs.
Since 2014 he has been actively contributing to the activities I propose.
He mainly knows children 3-11 years old, but has also worked with nurseries and with secondary school children (the old middle schools).
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