Although assistance dogs have traditionally helped with people with disabilities such as blindness or more recently deafness or mobility disabilities, there are a wide range of other disabilities that an assistance dog may be able to help with as well, including psychiatric disabilities.
Psychiatric service
dogs may be of any breed or size suitable for public work.
Some psychiatric service dogs are trained by the person who will become the
handler - usually with the help of a professional trainer. Others are trained
by assistance or service dog programs. Assistance dog organizations are
increasingly recognizing the need for dogs to help individuals with psychiatric
disabilities.
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