Therapy dogs play such an important role in helping people mentally, whether they’re working with ill people in hospital, young children learning to read at school, seniors in retirement homes, or ...

College students are facing a growing mental health crisis. According to a study this year, 1 in 5 U.S. law students reported a disability, most linked to mental health. Academic pressure and ...

Eli Greene, a senior animal science major at the University of Maryland, built a strong relationship with a therapist from the school’s counseling center, but when she went home to Florida for the ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this article misstated the counseling center at St. Benedict’s Prep. It is the Grossman Family Counseling Center. Many students in K-12 schools are facing big mental ...

Source: F. L. L. Green Photography; used with permission Providing opportunities for college students to interact with therapy dogs is a surefire way to bolster students’ well-being. In fact, study ...

A 2022 study on mental health, done by the National Library of Science, revealed that Black adolescents are less likely to seek out and find mental health care than white individuals. This study ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Victoria Hurwitz, the director of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program at Penn College, is instructing one of her students in the college's new, free Physical Therapy Clinic ...

Dogs offer unconditional love, acceptance and loyalty, making canines not just popular pets but also the most common animal used in therapy. Therapy dogs can even be effective in virtual interactions, ...