This is probably the most humbling, and exciting thing that I have read into this week. I am aware of pets and animals being used in a variety of care relationships, from guide dogs to patient as therapy in hospitals and often more experimentally in design projects and hypothetical futures.
Every now and again something pops up that you know is important. At the time you really don't understand it's significance or where it is going to lead you, but you know that there is a spark of an idea there. This is a spark, and I don't know what the fire looks like, but nurturing it seems like the only natural thing to do.
Emotional Service Dogs currently assist with the following tasks, amongst countless others.
- Picking up/ retrieving objects or aiding with mobility when the handler is dizzy from medication or has physical psychospmatic symptoms.
- Waking the handler if the handler sleeps through alarms or cannot get them-self out of bed.
- Alerting to and/ or responding to episodes (i.e. mood changes, panic attacks, oncoming anxiety...)
- Reminding the handler to take medication if the handler cannot remember on their own or with the use of an alarm.
-alerting to and/ or distracting the handler from repetitive and obsessive thoughts or behaviours.
http://www.iaadp.org/psd_tasks.html
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread7204.html
Every now and again something pops up that you know is important. At the time you really don't understand it's significance or where it is going to lead you, but you know that there is a spark of an idea there. This is a spark, and I don't know what the fire looks like, but nurturing it seems like the only natural thing to do.
Emotional Service Dogs currently assist with the following tasks, amongst countless others.
- Picking up/ retrieving objects or aiding with mobility when the handler is dizzy from medication or has physical psychospmatic symptoms.
- Waking the handler if the handler sleeps through alarms or cannot get them-self out of bed.
- Alerting to and/ or responding to episodes (i.e. mood changes, panic attacks, oncoming anxiety...)
- Reminding the handler to take medication if the handler cannot remember on their own or with the use of an alarm.
-alerting to and/ or distracting the handler from repetitive and obsessive thoughts or behaviours.
http://www.iaadp.org/psd_tasks.html
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread7204.html
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