January 2011 1/14/11 - Healing Companions by Jane Miller
Healing Companions, Jane Miller’s groundbreaking new book on psychiatric service dogs, was released in January 2010.
Just as the role that service dogs can play in the lives of people with invisible disabilities has started to receive national media attention—in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and on Oprah—Healing Companions is the first book to profile these extraordinary dogs and how they can transform lives.
About the Author:
Jane Miller Jane Miller Jane Miller is a licensed psychotherapist/clinical social worker, with a particular interest in holistic modalities of healing. She currently focuses on educating others about the legal, ethical, and practical criteria of working with Psychiatric Service Dogs (PSDs).
Now available for pre-order at Amazon.com, Borders.com, Barnes&Noble.com, Powells.com, and other bookstores nationwide.
Book Summary:
Just as the role that service dogs can play in the lives of people with invisible disabilities has started to receive national media attention—in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and on Oprah—Healing Companions is the first book to profile these extraordinary dogs and how they can transform lives. Service dogs have been assisting the blind, the hearing impaired and those in wheelchairs and with other disabilities for a long time.
This ground breaking book provides a window onto the new world of psychiatric service dogs (PSDs) for people with psychiatric disabilities (such as depression, post-traumatic stress, bi-polar disorder, anxiety and panic attacks, and more), showing how the dogs can change and enhance the lives of their human companions.
In Healing Companions you will meet these amazing dogs and see how they have helped a number of individuals improve their lives in profound and unexpected ways, allowing them to gain self-esteem, self-confidence, assertiveness and so much more. These dogs provide emotional support, as all dogs do, but they are specifically trained to perform certain tasks unique to the individual’s needs. More recently, psychiatric service dogs have helped many veterans returning from combat to overcome the effects of PTSD and return to more fulfilling lives.
Through the stories of these individuals and their dogs, I show how you, a friend, or a family member might benefit from working with such a healing companion. In addition to these remarkable stories, this book also explains which dogs are the right candidates for the job, which dogs are not, and how to tell the difference. Here’s a hint: it has nothing to do with the dog’s breed. Mixed breed dogs are very well suited to assist those with invisible disabilities. These dogs can be in-home companions or full-time Service Dogs who also accompany their companions out in public and to work.
Healing Companions discusses how these dogs are trained, how the dogs may impact other members of the family, and how they make one’s life more comfortable and less stressful for the dogs while they are undertaking their essential tasks. A helpful list of resources for further information, support, and services is provided. For anyone who may not know about the profound benefits that these service dogs may bring, as well as for anyone who loves dogs and enjoys learning more about their value to their companions, this book will serve as an informative, practical, and inspirational guide.
Learn More at: http://www.healing-companions.com/
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1/7/11 Have you Voted Yet?
At just 12 years old, Kyria Henry founded paws4people, and later paws4vets, training and pairing service dogs with children, seniors, seriously ill and disabled people, and war veterans needing assistance. A year-long sabbatical will allow Kyria to devote her full attention to the paws4vets program, providing service dogs to assist retired and active-duty military veterans as a tool to ease emotional, physical and psychological traumas and help them return to normal life.
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