Animal-assisted interventions (AAI) are gaining increasing popularity in a multitude of settings. Participants learn important credentialing, specific applications for utilizing therapy animals in educational institutions, along with welfare considerations.
Course created on June 1, 2022
On Demand
Course Type: Video, Audio
CE/CEU Offered: AK/1.0; AL/1.0; AR/1.0; ASWB ACE/1.0 Clinical; AZ/1.0; CA/1.0; CE Broker/1.0 General (FL), Continuing Education (OH), Continuing Education By A Social Worker (SC), Category I Social Work (WV), CE Broker #20-918979; CO/1.0; CT/1.0; DC/1.0; DE/1.0; FL/1.0; GA/1.0; HI/1.0; IA/1.0; IACET/0.1; ID/1.0; IL/1.0; IN/1.0; KS/1.0; KY/1.0; LA/1.0; MA/1.0; MD/1.0; ME/1.0; MI/1.0; MN/1.0; MO/1.0; MS/1.0; MT/1.0; NC/1.0; ND/1.0; NE/1.0; NH/1.0; NJ (ASWB ACE)/1.0; NM/1.0; NV/1.0; NY-Contact Hours/1.0 Self-Study; OH/1.0; OK/1.0; OR/1.0; PA/1.0; RI/1.0; SC/1.0; SD/1.0; TN/1.0; TX/1.0; UT/1.0; VA/1.0; VT/1.0; WA/1.0; WI/1.0; WV/1.0; WY/1.0
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to distinguish the differences between therapy and crisis response dogs.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe many ways to integrate therapy dogs into educational settings.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify important welfare considerations for both students and therapy dogs.
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-10 Minutes | Therapy dogs vs. Crisis dogs |
| 10-20 Minutes | Integrating Therapy Dogs into Educational Settings: AAA |
| 20-25 Minutes | Integrating Therapy Dogs into Educational Settings: AAE |
| 25-45 Minutes | Integrating Therapy Dogs into Educational Settings: AAT |
| 45-50 Minutes | Integrating Therapy Dogs into Educational Settings: AACR |
| 50-55 Minutes | Welfare Considerations |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary, Q & A |
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Yvonne Eaton-Stull
DSW, MSW LCSW
Dr. Yvonne Eaton-Stull is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Program Director of the BSSW Program at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Eaton-Stull is a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in animal-assisted social work, crisis intervention, and forensic social work. She has two therapy dogs and actively provides animal-assisted interventions in many human service agencies. She is a canine handler with HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response where she has provided comfort and support following crises and disasters throughout the United States for over 15 years. Her recent research has included implementing animal-assisted interventions in state prisons to address stress and anxiety, self-harm, and grief and loss.
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Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAI) in Educational Settings, course number 4663, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Continued Social Work as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 01/25/2023-01/25/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 Clinical continuing education credits.
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