Become a AAAIP Assessor
Are you a dog trainer, animal behaviorist or a professional in the pet care space with an interest in therapy animals? Add a valuable certification to your professional credentials and be prepared to better serve clients and their therapy dogs.
As an AAAIP Certified Assessor, you will positively impact the health and happiness of your community by evaluating professional therapy animal teams for their own certification.
Why is this assessment important to the field?
Professionals such as educators, mental health counselors, and physical therapists often incorporate therapy animals into their work, and they need to be able to be assessed by a professional with expertise in animal behavior. These teams have historically had to rely on team evaluations that were designed to assess volunteer handlers in places such as hospitals and nursing homes. AAAIP realized that professionals working with therapy animals need a team assessment built specifically for them. Professionals like dog trainers and behaviorists play a key role in teaching handlers the importance of topics like therapy animal consent and freedom of choice. This certification is the first of its kind to designate proficiency of best practices in animal-assisted interventions for trainers or animal care professionals. The AAAIP Certified Assessor Program validates a trainer's awareness of how to ethically partner with therapy animals.
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