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NOT an authoritative publication on PTSD Service Dogs
As mentioned in other reviews you'll have to look past the many typos, duplicate words and incorrect grammar to read this book (with no index). I've trained PTSD Service Dogs for ten years and disagree with many of their leaping assumptions about dogs w no research backup. Their references to "a dog" as an "it" belies the intimate relationship between one's service dog and one's self.
A hallmark of PTSD is flashbacks while sleeping, and authors mandate not allowing the svc dog in the bed? PTSD sufferers indeed have personal space issues, and authors mandate not allowing the dog in front of you? The authors suggest an extendable leash? Yikes! Those are some of the most dangerous tools any dog handler can use.
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