Therapy dog helps law students

Therapy dog helps law students

Therapy dog eases law students' stress, Therapy dog Zoe works the crowd of law students at UC Irvine, looking for someone to lavish attention upon. The group PAWS, brought therapy dogs to campus Tuesday to de-stress harried students who are studying for final exams starting Friday. 

When the pilot study wraps up this fall, Trisha and her two mentors will launch a full-scale study. This will be the first systematic examination on the impact of animal-assisted therapy for reactive attachment disorder.

Professor Burlingame says Trisha’s student mentoring grant from BYU helped Trisha secure an $11,000 co-sponsorship for the study from the Waltham Foundation.

Trisha has a mixed-breed dog of her own back home in the Tri-Cities, Wash. After graduating from BYU, she wants to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.