Leonardo Da Vinci Project

A European qualification framework for practice and training in Animal Mediated Assistance and Therapy (AMAT)

“Our objectives are to build a multi-dimensional framework of contents, legal and organizational aspects of quality criteria. So we will also assist mental health organizations by giving them tools to compare different forms and competences in Animal Mediated Assistance (AMAT) in the different European countries.”

“Animal Mediated Assistance includes measures for educational, social, therapeutical or rehabilitative activities being carried out by professionals with the help of the animal as subject within the triangular process (the client, the animal and the professional undergo a relation on which the process is based). The involvement of the animal is supposed to be a sort of catalysator within the intended process.”

“Further our work will result in European cooperation within lifelong training for AMAT.”