Animal Assisted Therapy
Animal Behavior Institute
Key Information
Campus location
Online USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
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Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
Introduction
Do you want to share your love of animals with others, bringing the unique benefits of human-animal interaction into the lives of those that need it most? Do you want an education that spans the breadth of animal-assisted therapy, education, and activities (AAT/E/A)? Our comprehensive program will give you the skills you need to participate in an existing program or start building your own. Our Certificate in Animal Assisted Therapy will help you to:
- Work with animals in an educational or therapeutic setting.
- Correctly interpret human and animal body language.
- Train dogs and other animals to work safely in the AAT environment
- Understand animal cognition and emotions
- Build safe & effective programs
- Anticipate and resolve potential problems
- Understand the legal and ethical issues
- Work with a variety of personality types.
- Create animal enrichment programs
- And much, much more!