Despite the popularity of therapy dogs working to support human well-being, little research has examined the impact of these ...

Hospitals can feel overwhelming when you’re going through cancer treatment, which is why many now bring in therapy animals to ...

As National Llama Day arrives on December 9, 2025, it’s the perfect moment to recognize an unexpected yet rapidly growing force in the world of emotional healing: llamas. With their calm demeanor, ...

Annie Peters, president and CEO of Pet Partners—a Bellevue, Wash.-based national therapy animal organization focusing on improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond—traces her ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes. But an increasingly popular alternative is emerging: therapy cats. The term is ...

Chicken. Did the word make you think of slippery pale pink slab? A roast in your oven? Bar-b-que? Recently, on a trip to Vermont I happened to rent a room overnight in the home of a nurse who had a ...

Across America, scenes like this are becoming increasingly common as hospice and palliative care facilities embrace a compassionate new approach to end-of-life comfort. Therapy animals are no longer ...

Katy Kleinschmidt says Coping Together’s animal assisted therapy not only helped her son Jack form deep relationships with his favorite animals, but improved his ability to connect with people as well ...

The University of New England has campuses in Biddeford, shown here, and Portland, as well as overseas in Tangier, Morocco. COURTESY / UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND The University of New England is ...

Programs called wilderness therapy or outdoor behavioral health care take many forms. But they usually involve taking groups of teens out into the woods, mountains, or desert for long periods of time ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...