Counselling Services
This initiative is brought to Red Deer Polytechnic by Counselling Services in collaboration with the Central Alberta Humane Society.
At Red Deer Polytechnic, we have students who rely on the use of a service animal. Please become familiar with the difference between a service animal and therapy animal.
Therapy Animal
• Provide psychological or physiological therapy to individuals other than their handlers
• Have stable temperaments and friend, easy-going personalities
• Encouraged to interact with a variety of people while on-duty including petting the therapy animal
Service Animal
• Trained to perform tasks that ease their handlers’ disabilities
• Help to attain safety and independence of handler
• Not for petting as it could prevent animal from performing their job correctly
(Therapy Dogs, 2017)
