ISEP shares the best clinical sessions and master’s final projects from its students through the Thesis Corner. This time, Pilar Liria Plañiol, a student of ISEP’s Postgraduate Program in Neuropsychology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, presents her clinical session Animal-Assisted Therapy.
Her work, in addition to including a brief introduction to Animal-Assisted Therapies (AAT) and, specifically, dog therapies, focuses on The Smiles of a Child with Autism Spectrum. It involves quantitatively measuring the smiles of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, using an interface device during animal-assisted activities for a limited time of 7 months, and comparing them with the results obtained from children of the same age without disorders.
Consult Pilar Liria Plañiol’s Animal-Assisted Therapy and Autism clinical session
The clinical sessions of the Postgraduate Program in Neuropsychology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders are works carried out by the students themselves that require an exhaustive review of a topic of their choice. For their development, it is necessary to consult scientific literature in English (high-impact journals) and prepare an index that they develop in a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 80 slides, which they defend publicly for a maximum of 75 minutes (including videos). Once presented, it is subject to questions or clarifications from their peers and/or the postgraduate program coordinator.