Nederlandse Stichting Helpen met Paarden – Equitherapie
 

Submission form description partner organizations

Submission form for the description of activities and qualification
and quality standards of the LDV partnerorganizations.
 
This form enables us to make the framework of qualitystandards of all partnerorganizations in this LDV-project. As we intended it to be at the first meeting and as we offered in our project plan.
 
Advise and help for filling in:
We advise you to put your answers first ready in a word file and to copy them into this form. Therefore we offer this link to the complete submission form as pdf, so that you can use it to prepare your answers.That is the easiest way of working.
If you want to have a reminder for the framework and what has to be filled in here a link to the list of partners and partner organizations and to the framework we used at the first meeting and the criteria we planned to use at the first meeting which we developed further after the first survey and the development of the second questionnaire.
 
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Introduction

This form enables us to make the framework of quality standards of all partner organizations in this LDV-project. As we intended it to be at the first meeting.

A basis to make our quality standards comparable and to can start up a qualitative discussion when building the framework and code of good practice.

We used the

and developed it further after having the first results of the 1st survey and after developing the questionnaire for practitioners and organizations 2nd survey . And added the wishes of the partners. THe result is this submission form

This form is an addition to the questionnaire for practitioners in the different partner countries

Place of this analysis within the project

The organizations joining in this project are working with AMAT/AAA which means they support people with disabilities in physical, psychological, mental or social order. Working within the educational, social, therapeutic or rehabilitative field we complement and deepen the medical, paramedical and educative interventions in a very efficient way.

Because of the lack of an official framework for teaching and practice of AMAT/AAA in European countries and means of official quality control we cannot exploit those opportunities efficiently. Furthermore this deficiency disables the upcoming generation of well educated specialists in AMAT/AAA to establish themselves as professionals and to enable cooperation between specialists in practice, training and quality control within Europe. On the other side the outcomes of this project could be profit to the financial deciders an clients themselves making them able to distinguish between the different offers of practice in AMAT/AAA.

As examples for big problems is the fact that in AMAT/AAA different professions are involved who have to undergo the training as an additional training to their basic profession and practice with clients without animals involved. Therefore we have to do with different basic assumptions at the beginning of the training and in practice we have to do with a lot of very different training programs differing from 3 days to three years. There is a broad variety in definition of competencies and methods partially scientifically well justified partially not. 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) or Animal Assisted Activities in the different European countries.

The partner project aims on a guaranteed level of identical interventions of quality within different fields an functions in AMAT/AAA in the EU.

This can only be realized by conforming training programs to a well defined levels of quality and competences that we will research and develop within this project. This will result in a system of quality and security guaranties for the clients or customers in the EU.

Animal Mediated Assistance includes measures for educational, social, therapeutic 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 catalyst within the intended process. (submission form project AMAT February 2011 Margueriete Weit and Ulrike Thiel)

Nevertheless these measures and working models are differently described and defined not only in the practice of the partner countries but also in the partner organizations themselves

The first step is to compare our own definitions, qualification and qualitystandards of all involved partner organizations in order to produce a code of good practice on basis of this framework. You can fill in this form till January 15th 2012. After that the results will be gathered and prepared for the 5th partnermeeting in Belgium.

Thank you,
 
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