4 Your Health: Therapy dogs help reduce stress

Therapy dogs can help children bear stressful experiences.
Man’s best friend can help children recover from stress.
That’s according to a new study from Yale University. Researchers monitored a group of pre-teens who were asked to complete a stressful task. They found kids who spent time with a therapy dog, after the task, were in a better mood than those given a soothing object, or nothing at all.
Children who interacted with dogs also had less anxiety.
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