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the special training facility for assistance dogs (PSD) with a focus on mental disability
Working framework
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Requirements
- An assistance dog (PSD) is trained for a specific person with specific mental deficits and forms an inseparable human/animal partner team with them
- The dog’s psychological needs for a specific person are a prerequisite for PSDeurope’s Assistance Dog (PSD) training. There must also be written confirmation from a psychotherapist, psychiatrist or physician.
- PSDeurope training creates the conditions for a particular person to be able to travel with their dog as smoothly as possible while meeting the requirements of airlines.
- Additional conditions imposed by airlines or airline cooperations may be included in the training program and certification on a case-by-case basis.
Training
- Attendance and mastering of a training course in theory and practice
- Classroom training of the dog, related to the specific training content for Assistance DOG (PSD) Mental Disability. Proof of the dog’s trained skills via accompanying short videos. These are checked, approved or rejected with regard to language, correctness of content and specifications, compliance with animal welfare, general procedure as well as result by a licensed assistance dog trainer. The background to this approach is the limited ability of the affected group of people to participate in conventional forms of training. Live tests are prescribed on a case-by-case basis.
- Creation of an individual task list for the assistance dog (PSD) for its owner, which is developed and implemented in training together with the EURO-DOGS.eu dog trainer and the doctor or psychotherapist involved.
Time expenditure
In addition to the aforementioned content-related prerequisites and skills, a framework schedule for training and theoretical studies must also be set and taken into account as part of the training. The minimum effort required by EURO-DOGS.eu is 150 hours over a period of at least 6 months, which you must plan for the training of your dog. An appropriate protocol shall be submitted prior to certification.
What we do
Our service
PSD Training Center
Our dog school focuses entirely on the training of PSD dogs according to US DoT standards as well as Assistance Dogs (PSD) for people with mental disabilities, as this training is very specific and takes into account both the training of the dog and the further training of the dog owner with mental disabilities.
Licensing + Certification
Each PSDeurope dog training within EURO-DOGS.eu follows a specific training program with elaborated special criteria for man and dog. Only when all defined criteria are fully met can and may the training be certified.
Promote bonding + relationship
In addition to the pure skills training of the dog, specially adapted to the requirements of globally active airlines in terms of safety and hygiene, a primary goal of PSDeurope and EURO-DOGS.eu is to promote the existing bond and relationship between specific dogs and humans and make it more stable.
Human / Dog Partner Team
The approach of EURO-DOGS.eu is not aimed at teaching the dog special skills, but wants to train the complete human/animal partner team, with all psychologically caused individual limitations, in such a way that the travel of the team is fundamentally safe and reliable.
We strengthen people and their support dogs
We are EURO-DOGS.eu, a functioning association of psychotherapists and specialized dog trainers from the field of assistance and therapy dog training
We control the dog’s level of training and the human’s ability to understand his dog in the best possible way.
EURO-DOGS.eu as a training platform shows and supports mentally ill people how to train and support their dogs. Situations of daily life, undertakings, fun and joy are practiced – this security often leads to symptom relief
EURO-DOGS.eu and PSDeurope accompany the training. Videos from daily life give the best insight into how the human / animal / partner team acts and fits together. The videos are the foundation for further training steps, such as face to face conversations, webinars, reviews and supervised coaching.
What drives us forward
Our motivation
Mentally impaired people often perceive the world with completely different eyes than normal people do. The psychological limitation is extremely individual. Extensive studies on the subject of mental illness and limitations have clearly proven the positive influence of animals, especially dogs for the health of the mentally ill person. From this point of view we want to help these people to travel with their animals (especially dogs), even if this means taking the animal with them on a plane.
We hope that with our concept (created by the specialized support associations TAT-WAZ and VFBB) we have found a way to convince European airlines that PSDeurope Assistance Dogs (PSD) and human/animal partner teams trained by us represent an enrichment of the current acceptance profile of potential passengers.