Animal assisted therapy can:
- teach empathy and appropriate interpersonal skills
- be soothing and the presence of animals can more quickly build rapport between the professional and the client
- improve individual’s skills to pick up social cues imperative to human relationships.
- Professionals can process that information and use it to help clients see how their behaviour aftects others.
More recently, therapy dogs are being used as a form of engagement with students at school and university.
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