About Training: At Guardian Service Dogs™, we specialize in providing Disabled Veterans and Service Members with a quality, individualized, Service Dog Training Program. We utilize the Battle Drill Training Method™, developed by our own Executive Training Director and Head Service Dog Trainer, ...
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 ...
DFW Canines for Veterans is a 501c3 non profit org that trains service dogs for combat veterans suffering from PTSD and or TBI for free. We pull 99% of our service dogs in training from city kill shelters. We train the service dog and the veteran toget
Capital One Associates in Plano, TX got the unique chance to raise a service dog-in-training in the office setting, while brightening their coworkers’ days and paving the way for a more accessible work space. Learn how this team is making a paw-sitive i
The clinician raters were blinded to the study topic (service dogs), design, timing (baseline or follow-up), and condition allocation (intervention or control). The CAPS-5 raters were clinical psychology doctoral students trained by an experienced US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinician ...
Fifteen partners of veterans with PTSD participating in a service dog training program responded to an online survey assessing their own trauma symptoms as well as their current relationship satisfaction. Twelve of the survey participants also took part in in-depth interviews. The researchers propose ...
Claims Representation and Counseling:Serves veterans, their dependents and survivors, in all matters pertaining to veterans' disability benefits and rights. It is the designated agency of the state of Texas to represent the State and its veterans before the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). ...
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 ...
b. An old soldier who has seen long service. 2. A person who is long experienced or practiced in an activity or capacity: a veteran of political campaigns. [Latin veterānus, from vetus, veter-, old; see wet- in Indo-European roots.] vet′er·an adj. American Heritage® Dictionary ...
one of four experimental programs nationwide that pair veterans afflicted by PTSD with Labrador and golden retrievers. Launched in 2008 by a social worker named Rick Yount, the program arranges for a veteran to spend six weeks with a dog, training it to be a mobility-assistance animal for ...