Emotional support animals
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found: Work cat.: Adrie's guide to service animals, 2013:pages 3-4 and 7-8 (significant coverage of emotional support animals as distinct from service animals; when an animal is not trained to perform any particular tasks, but provides comfort and emotional support to someone who experiences psychological difficulties, that animal is known as an emotional support animal)
found: Wikipedia website, viewed January 7, 2019(an emotional support animal (ESA) is a companion animal that a medical professional says provides some benefit for a person disabled by a mental health condition or emotional disorder. Differs from a service animal in that the animals receive no specific training) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_support_animal
found: Emotional support animals, 2017:subtitle (the ins and outs of ESAs)
found: Animals in human society, 2016:table of contents (considering the emotional support animal: the "pharmaceuticalization" of companion animals)
found: Qualitative case study on best practices of emotional support animal policies, 2018:spine title (Best practices of residential life ESA policies)
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2019-01-07: new
2019-04-09: revised
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