Resources

Mental Health Is Going To The Dogs: How Pet Therapy Helps Wounded Vets And First Responders
By: Bryan Robinson
November 4, 2019

How Therapy Dogs Can Improve Mental and Physical Health
By: Trisha Torrey
December 8, 2019

Dogs Can Help New College Students with Homesickness, Study Shows
By: Liz Donovan
August 2016

Children Are Learning How To Read Better By Reading To Dogs
By Tori Holmes
April 2016

Turning Your Pet Into a Therapy Dog
By Jane E. Brody
February 29, 2016

Pet therapy: Exploring the emotional benefits of dogs, cats
By Nara Schoenberg/Chicago Tribune
January 16, 2016

6 Ways Dogs Help Ease Depression Symptoms
By Therese J. Borchard
Originally published on PsychCentral.com on 4 May 2015

Therapy Dogs Help Cancer Patients Cope With Tough Treatments
By Amy Norton
January 20, 2015

Grief Therapy Dogs Lend a Paw at Funeral Homes
By Amy Sinatra Ayres
Vetstreet, July 15, 2014

Drexel Becomes First University to Host a Permanent Therapy Dog in Recreation Center
By Alissa Falcone
September 25, 2014

26 Reasons Therapy Dogs Are The Best
By Kasia Galazka
BuzzFeed Animals, June 3, 2014

Therapy Dogs Presence Steadily Grows In Libraries
By Meredith Schwartz
Library Journal, February 6, 2012

Therapy Dogs Bring Happiness to Merwick Residents
April 26, 2012

How Therapy Dogs Can Help Children With Autism
By Gimundo Staff
April 6, 2012

Learning to read? Try talking to a dog
By Rachel Rodriguez, CNN
October 24, 2009 11:10 a.m. EDT

Perioperative Nursing and Animal-Assisted Therapy
By Julie Miller, Lisa Ingram
AORN Journal, Sept, 2000

The Effects of Animal-Assisted Therapy on Anxiety Ratings of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients
By Sandra B. Barker, Ph.D. and Kathryn S. Dawson, Ph.D.
Psychiatric Serv 49:797-801, June 1998

'Therapy Dogs' Help Relieve Stress for Families, Staff, Volunteers
By Rudi Williams
American Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 11, 2001