And PTSD and
psychiatric service dogs provide emotional support with people that have PTSD and other mental health conditions.
While
psychiatric service dogs provide a number of benefits to their owners, the biggest obstacle that many people run in to is the sheer cost of having and training a service dog.
Not exact matches
Since
psychiatric service dogs are a relatively new phenomena there are few associations that
provide readily trained
service dogs.
Assistance
dogs, be they guide, hearing,
service, social / therapy,
psychiatric or skin melanoma sniffing
dogs,
provide a very serious and meaningful
service to people with disabilities or disabling conditions.
Handlers of ESAs (and
psychiatric service dogs) may be asked by landlords or transportation personnel to
provide documentation from their medical professionals that they have a disability alleviated by the ESA.
These
dogs provide support in areas such as mobility and
psychiatric service, educational and rehabilitative assistance, and social therapy.
A
psychiatric service dog, however,
provides more than emotional support.