New Clinical Trials Searches for Evidence of Benefit from Animal Assisted Therapy

New Clinical Trials Searches for Evidence of Benefit from Animal Assisted Therapy

How’s your ESA doing? It’s a good bet you didn’t know your family’s pet(s) could also be “Emotional Support Animals.”
Here’s another related acronym, “animal assisted therapy (AAT).” This is a growing field of research and practice in the use of animals for psychological therapy.
It’s not difficult to understand the underlying beliefs about how animals can have a healthy effect on the human psyche – just hold a warm, fuzzy and purring kitten for a while.
 
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