Psychiatric service dogs reduce loneliness and improve social functioning in adults with mental health conditions: a qualitative study from South Africa

Frontiers in Psychiatry | New and Recent Articles ·
Mind & Mental Health Switzerland

IntroductionLoneliness and impaired social functioning are clinically significant features of mental illness. Psychiatric service dogs (PSDs) are individually trained to perform tasks that mitigate the functional impact of psychiatric disability and have been proposed as an intervention for loneliness and impaired social functioning for their handlers living with mental illness. However, the…

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