Service dog programs are increasingly being explored as complementary or alternative interventions for military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This paper details the results of a control group, pre-and-post pilot investigation evaluating the use of a 14-week service dog training ...
Learn about PTSD service dogs’ specialized training and unique skill set, along with the obstacles currently standing in the way of more Veterans benefiting from them. Understand the Issue Explore Ways to Help From raising awareness to helping change legislation to supporting local service dog traini...
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Lins, who is now a mental health therapist, sat on the advisory panel for the NIH service dog study. He told Fox News Digital he was once in the same dark place as many other veterans. "I was a very absent parent," he said. "I could force myself through the motions, but I was...
A clinical social worker providing counseling services to veterans and their partners at the service dog agency involved in the study plays a central role as part of this relational bridge. Social workers may consider supporting and advocating for veteran clients to have access to qualified service ...
Trainers teach the service dogs how to keep veterans comfortable in public. "A lot of our clients are uncomfortable in large crowd settings, so having the dog behind them like this creates more space for them," McGuire said. "Just from the few weeks that I've had her, I can honestly ...
“I wasn’t a dog guy,” Haag said. “But when I got a German Shepherd named Axel, everything changed." Axel and Haag The service dog gap Today, nearly30% of veteranslike Haag face physical and psychological disabilities because of their war zone experiences. But while research shows that...
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help veterans, and also offer an opportunity for our veteran team members feel more comfortable in the workplace.” She noticed that the presence of a dog can be a great chance for someone to open up and start a conversation with co-workers, especially if they haven’t been able to ...
(PTSD) resulting from their time in the service. In contrast to standard office-based interventions for military-relatedPTSD, veterans are actively pursuing and completing theseservice dogprograms. Veterans and their family members report that having aservice doghelps them manage their PTSD symptoms ...