Pet-Facilitated Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry - Tập 11 - Trang 29-30 - 1999
Eric Lewin Altschuler1
1School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, 0606, and Brain and Perception Laboratory, 0109, La Jolla

Tóm tắt

It is suggested that pet-facilitated therapy might be a useful adjuvant on treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Some motivation and rationale for this idea is given, and a discussion of method of testing it.

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