Teach your dog to perform specific tasks that prevent or mitigate psychiatric trigger moments or medical crisis attacks. Determine which behaviors your dog should be prompted to perform when you need to be calmed, reminded to take medication, lie down, call your healthcare provider – or whatever your specific needs might be.
With these skills (and a recommendation from a mental health professional that you never should have to be without the soothing presence of your dog), you have the right to declare that your dog provides you with the necessary actions for you to function and maintain your daily work and routine necessities. That would be the definition of a service dog.
Due to recent changes in air travel requirements, your dog must be deemed safe and well-behaved. No matter what job your service dog performs for you, traveling requires a behavior skill set that your dog might not have – key for stress-free travel experiences. Following the completion of training, Elisabeth will provide a letter of confirmation for use as referral and for airline / Department of Transportation verification.
Please note that in order to qualify as a Psychiatric Service Dog, your dog also needs to be prescribed by a mental health professional, regardless of how well-trained they might be. This service does not include seeing eye dog/guide dog training or protection dog training.
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