The subject and its foreseen results respond to the following considerations and objectives:

The subject Animal-Assisted Therapy will guide the Occupational Therapist to develop his/her capacity to work holistically, 

tolerantly, with no judgements, carefully and sensibly in an attempt to seek other work tools to complementtheir work 

to fulfil the set objectives. At the same time, it will help reflect on the importance of occupational work to achieve the 

well-being and comfort of populations, communities, groups and individuals whose lives are affected by limited functional 

capacity, suffering and disease, and to analyse the different approaches used to work with these problems in our society.

Finally, developing effective communication and an empathic relationship with users, families, social groups

and other professionals will be one of the most important objectives of this subject, as well as introducing students

to investigate alternative tools for the rehabilitation and integration of sick people. The ProfessionalIntervention Planning 

in a clinical case will be one of the cornerstones of the objectives to be met by students.

The Animal-Assisted Therapy will be the Subject that guides the Occupational Therapist to research alternative

tools for the rehabilitation and integration of sick people. At the same time, it will help reflect on theimportance of occupational 

work to achieve the well-being and comfort of populations, communities, groups and individuals whoselives are

affected by limited functional capacity, suffering and disease, and to analyse the different approaches used to work with these

problems in our society.

This subject is cross-sectionally related with the other degree subjects as it offers the perspective ofintroducing animals as working instruments into Occupational Therapy.

It intends to provide students the chance to conduct new research lines in the OccupationalTherapy field as to

It will be necessary to attend classes, theoretical-practical seminars and fieldwork practicals to pass this subject as it is 

particularly practical in nature.

A final exam about its theoretical-practical contents will also be sat.

When students pass the subject, they will be competent to:

- Study the different factors that influence health and disease.

- Develop a critical capacity for scientific theories and ideological doctrines.

- Play roles and shoulder responsibilities which, as healthcare professionals, they must perform to meet a population’s

or someone’s requirements.

- Acquire knowledge and the capacity to apply Animal-Assisted Therapies in the Occupational Theory context.

- Acquire the capacity to apply a research methodology to their professional actions by improving and updating its quality.

- Plan, design and develop a social research in the health field with methodological rigour.

- Acquire the capacity to maintain a person’s dignity, privacy and confidentiality as something inherent tostudents playing their 

professional role.

- Acquiring skills to relate with patients and other professionals that enable the process to be optimised.

The Subject’s competences: ORDER CIN 729/2009

•  3. Obtain and use epidemiological data and evaluate tendencies and risks as a basis for health-related decision making.

•  4. Students recognise their own limitations and the need to maintain and update their professional competence

by attaching special importance to the autonomous learning of new knowledge and techniques and motivation by quality.

•  5. Know, critically evaluate and learn how to use sources of information to obtain, organise, interpretand

communicate scientific, health, public health and social information by keeping data confidential.

•  7. Understand and recognise the interrelation that links well-being, health, significant occupation, dignity and participation

     concepts.

•  8. Understand and recognise the importance of contextual factors as determining factors of occupational dysfunction.

•  10. Evaluate and adapt the environment to promote participation in significant occupations in various 

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day-to-day facets, personal autonomy and quality of life.

•  17. Understand the basis of the actions, indications and efficiency of Occupational Therapy interventions according to

available scientific evidence.

•  21.Undertake professional practice by respecting other professionals by acquiring teamwork skills.

•  22. Actively listen, obtain and summarise relevant information about individuals and populations’ problems and

occupational demands, and understand the content of this information.

•  23.Establish assertive interpersonal communication with all the relevant interlocutors during the Occupational Therapy 

process.

To pass this subject, students should obtain the following results:

1- Analyse, summarise and relate the fundamental concepts in Assisted Therapy techniques.

2.- Demonstrate having learning the different Animal-Assisted Therapy techniques in the health field.

3- Correctly apply these concepts to the Occupational Therapy field.

4- Correctly apply the Vancouver System and perform bibliographic documentary works as a basic requirement to put the 

subject’s practicals to the best possible use.

5- Know both the theoretical and practical parts of the Animal-Assisted Therapy techniques that apply to Occupational Therapy

research.

They will allow students to be better prepared to understand the basics of Occupational Therapy theories and methodologies

with a bio-psycho-social vision of human beings and to, therefore, be better able to start planning by discussing professional

actions in situations of physical, psychic or sensorial disease/disability, or in situations of marginalisation throughout someone’s

life cycle by introducing the Animal-Assisted Therapy as a complementary tool to plan such intervention.

3.1. Type of tests, their value towards the final mark and the evaluation criteria for each test

Students should demonstrate that they have obtained the foreseen learning outcomes by the following evaluation activities.

-Attending theoretical-practical seminars and practical fieldwork held as part of the teaching syllabus. Presenting a work 

to apply the Single-Case Methodology theory (50% of the mark).

• Final exam with which acquiring the expected learning outcomes will be evaluated (50% of the mark).