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Animals in Healing Environments:
AAI (Animal Assisted Intervention) Certificate Program is being
redesigned to reflect new trends in the emerging field of Human
Animal Studies
PAN Members will receive updates in the PAN newsletter. Announcements
about new course and workshop offerings will also appear in
the news section on the homepage of this website. You will be
provided with a link with further details.
We hope to offer the introductory material via interactive online
modules in the future.
| Background Information about Animals
in Healing Environments (Animal Assisted Intervention)
Certificate Program: |
| Animals and Nature in Healing Environments
is offered to professionals who are interested in learning
how to incorporate animals and nature into the work they
are already trained to do. The course is designed for
health care practitioners, educators, veterinarians, researchers
and other human service providers. |
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History
and theories about how and why people interact
with other animals and nature |
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Behavior,
social, and physical needs, and symptoms of
stress in common pet species |
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Examining
how contact with animals and nature maintains
human health and equilibrium |
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Techniques
to incorporate animals and nature into a variety
of educational and therapeutic settings |
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How to
prepare a proposal to establish a program |
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How to
locate and critically read scientific literature |
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Ethical
and cultural considerations |
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| Some Course Objectives: |
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Understand
the current interest in human animal studies
in terms of major social and cultural trends |
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Understand
which theoretical concepts can be useful in
explaining the social and emotional relationships
between people, other animals and nature |
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Understand
the physiological and psychological effects
of interactions with animals and nature and
the significance of animals and nature to
human health |
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Understand
the nature of the scientific literature about
Human Animal Studies |
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Be able
to state the most general effects that are
consistently reported about Human Animal Interaction |
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Be able
to describe the range of programs |
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Be able
to design, write and give an oral presentation
about a program proposal or research design
to evaluate a program or other issue related
to Human Animal Studies |
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| Partnership Between DePaul University
and PAN: |
| DePaul University, School for New Learning
(SNL) http://snl.depaul.edu
has embarked upon a partnership with PAN that allows DePaul
University to provide sponsorship in the form of a home
base for the PAN Certificate Program. Furthermore, this
partnership fosters collaboration with the SNL Master
of Arts Program in Applied Professional Studies. Students
may apply work completed in the PAN Certificate Program
toward fulfilling requirements in the SNL MA program,
including a concentration in animal assisted therapy or
a related area. The SNL MA program is not available in
a distance learning format at this time. Both organizations
believe this successful partnership offers exciting and
unique opportunities for those with interests in the application,
usage, as well as research development of animal relationships
in applied therapy within the edifice of higher education.
PAN also partners with DePaul University’s Office
of Continuing and Professional Education http://www.learning.depaul.edu/about/centers/hr.asp
to provide CEU's (Continuing Education Units). The certificate
program can be taken independently of Masters Program.
To matriculate in the Masters program, a student must
apply to and be accepted by DePaul University. |
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