Personal Opinion: I feel

Keywords: Service animals, Therapy animal, Pet therapy, Animal assisted therapy, Animal aides, Companion animals, as if animals as aides
emotional (mental and physical) distress to people are extremely

Concept Review MP Source 2: The use of pets in medical settings is helpful. If an animal is
increasing, because animals provide a level of social trained properly, it can
support in the institutional care of the mentally ill. help its owner battle
The article also lists numerous studies to back their

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bouts of PTSD as well
claim.
as anxiety and other
psychological issues.
Source 1: Service Dog Helps Source 2: Pet Therapy: How Service animals can
Animals and Humans Heal Each
Veteran with PTSD also be guides to the
Connection: the veterans dog Frankie blind, the deaf, and
MP Source 1: Real example of a jumps up, licks, barks, and whines to get Connection:
Both articles others who are
trained service dog helping a war her owners attention when he starts to
veteran cope with his PTSD. The have a flashback. The affection that is mention the impaired or
dog goes everywhere with him, shown from the dog, is also mentioned in release of the incapacitated in some
the pet therapy article but about other chemical
knows his triggers, and does
types of animals such as: cats, birds,
shape or form. They
whatever she can to bring her Oxytocin in the
horses, etc.
brain which
impact the wellbeing of
owner back to reality when he is
overcome with a flashback. makes people their owners
How effective are animal happy. Also, immensely and are
Connection: Animals who have oxytocin had MP Source 3: an experiment
bonded with a human have an aides to those suffering beneficial long conducted to where 2 groups
innate compulsion to help and term effects on
protect the human because they from physical, emotional, patients. It helps
of children underwent
physical examinations with
feel that they are equals, that they people feel
are family. This relates to our war and/ or mental distress? calmer, and one group having the
presence of a support dog
veteran and his dog because the more trusting.
dog feels compelled to help his with and the other group having
his PTSD whenever he gets no support animal.
triggered.

Source 3: Companion Animals

Source 5: Dualism in Animal Alleviating Distress in Children
Psychology
Connection: Both
MP Source 5: Journal article that explains the
articles involve aiding
behavior of animals and their innate abilities to
children, with one being
sense distress as well as their compulsion to
an experiment and the
help other beings to which they have bonded
other was more so
with. Source 4: The Effect of Animal- scientific observation in
Connection: Since animals can somehow Assisted Therapy on Stress Responses a hospital setting. Both
detect distress in other creatures, this helps in in Hospitalized Children studies were conducted
hospital settings with kids because dogs (or MP Source 4: The stress associated with children's and measured the
other animals) will detect that a child is afraid hospitalization may lead to negative physiological and positive and/or negative
or upset and try to comfort them. psychological effects. Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) is frequently responses to aide
is used to alleviate the stress of hospitalization. Observations
were done with various groups of patients to record the responses
to AAT.