Through practical, real-life examples, Assessing Handlers for Competence in Animal-Assisted Interventions provides guidance to any person working with animals in any setting.
Anyone who reads this book will come away with the knowledge and confidence to assess handlers\' competence..
Additionally, Howie addresses how to deal with problems that can arise in program management.
She further describes one model for easily integrating competency assessment into an interview and provides a form for documenting the competency assessment.
She then outlines training that addresses those competencies based on individual facility and client dynamics.
In a friendly, easy-to-read style, she clearly explains the need for competencies while identifying broad categories currently in use.
Howie brings more than thirty years of experience as an AAI provider, coordinator, and mental health therapist to bear on the topic of Competence for animal handlers.
Both of these problems easily can be remedied with basic guidance.
Other facilities accept an evaluation of the animal-handler team without knowing whether that evaluation relates to their facility or client dynamics.
Facilities that have volunteers who work independently are in the greatest need of competent handlers, yet many of those facilities accept Handlers with only proof of animal vaccinations.
Through practical, real-life examples, Assessing Handlers for Competence in Animal-Assisted Interventions provides guidance to any person working with animals in any setting
