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Where an animal assisted therapist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an animal assisted therapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Animal assisted therapists provide support to individuals with cognitive, motoric, or social-emotional disabilities through animal assisted intervention. They involve pets and domesticated animals in a specific intervention plan such as therapy, education, and human service, and aim to restore and maintain the patients` well-being and recovery.

Also known as animal assisted intervention professional.

Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: dance therapist, 32%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
dance therapist 32% covered art therapist 27% covered recreational therapist 26% covered dental hygienist 25% covered healthcare assistant 24% covered animal assisted therapist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from animal assisted therapist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an animal assisted therapist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An animal assisted therapist needs 11 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • instruct animals for therapy purposes handling and moving
  • recruit animal handlers management skills
  • animal therapy agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
  • select therapy animals handling and moving
  • assess the patient's therapeutic needs information skills
  • assistive instruments health and welfare
  • maintain healthcare user data confidentiality assisting and caring
  • develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship communication, collaboration and creativity
  • interact with healthcare users communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide health education communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an animal assisted therapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Animal assisted therapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an animal assisted therapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.