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Katherine Compitus

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Katherine Compitus
Born (1977-03-05) 5 March 1977 (age 47)
New York, New York
United States of America
🏳️ NationalityUnited States and Colombia
💼 Occupation

Katherine Olaya Compitus (née Katherine Olaya Gross) (born 5 March 1977 in New York City, New York) is a clinical social worker, educator and animal behaviorist whose work focuses on animal-assisted therapy, veterinary social work and the human-animal bond.

Life and career[edit]

Katherine Compitus was born and raised in New York City where she attended the Brearley school and Stuyvesant High School. Her mother is a Colombian bilingual special education teacher and her father is a Jewish information technology specialist. Katherine previously worked as an elementary and high-school teacher and holds master's degrees in education, clinical social work, animal behavior and conservation.[1] She is due to complete her a doctorate of clinical social work at New York University in May 2020.[2] She is a member of MENSA, the high-IQ society and in 2018 won a scholarship for her work.[3]

Katherine is an established researcher, author and practitioner whose work focuses on comparative psychology and the human-animal bond.[4] She is the founder and chairman of Surrey Hills Sanctuary, a non-profit micro-farm sanctuary dedicated to education, community outreach and policy change as it relates to vulnerable people with pets.[5] She developed and taught the first Human-Animal Bond and Direct Social Work course at NYU's Silver School of Social Work.[6] Katherine lectured in the graduate social work schools at New York University, Columbia University and Fordham University,[7] as well as internationally at conferences such as the Animal Behavior Society[8] and ADEC (the Association for Death Education Counsel).[9] She is known for her work on pet loss and the process of conducting clinical social work with the assistance of animals[10] She is the author of the Zooeiya blog for Psychology Today.[11] and wrote about psychiatric emergency rooms for The Huffington Post.[12]

Katherine was a consultant for author Jennifer Weiner on her book "Who Do You Love", by providing insight into the field of social work education.[13] In 2007, Katherine married Paul Compitus, a fashion designer. Together they in promote a vegan lifestyle, animal rights and responsible pet ownership.[14] They are the co-founders of Wiggly Pups, a luxury Pet Care Service[15][16]

Bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Katherine Compitus". Psychology Today.
  2. "Kathy Compitus". NYU Social Work.
  3. "Scholarship Winners". MENSA Foundation.
  4. "Kathy Compitus". Town and Village.
  5. "Board of Directors". SH Sanctuary.
  6. "National HAB Course Listings". Animals and Society.
  7. "Katherine Oloya Compitus". Columbia University.
  8. "Sessions". Animal Behavior Society.
  9. Compitus, Katherine (3 August 2019). "Conference Notice". Journal of Depression and Anxiety.
  10. "Katherine Compitus". Research Gate.
  11. "Katherine Compitus". Psychology Today.
  12. "Welcome to the Psych Emergency Room". HuffPost. 16 November 2016.
  13. Weiner,Jennifer. Who Do You Love Acknowledgements
  14. "Animal House". New York Post. 16 May 2010.
  15. "Wiggly Pups Pet Care".
  16. "P and K".
  17. Compitus, Katherine (2019). "The Process of Integrating Animal-Assisted Therapy into Clinical Social Work Practice"". Clinical Social Work Journal. doi:10.1007/s10615-019-00721-3.
  18. "Traumatic pet loss and the integration of attachment-based animal assisted therapy".


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