Prescription Protocols for
Psychiatric Service Animals

Pat Gonser PhD, FNP

Table of Contents

Title Page

Americans With Disabilities Act

Primary vs. Secondary Diagnosis

Mental Health Conditions Amenable to PSD

Conditions Amenable to PSD

How Service Dogs are Trained

Panic Attacks/Disorder Alert

Social Phobia

Panic Disorder/Attack Response

Agoraphobia

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Bipolar Disorders Alert

Bipolar Disorders Response

Dissociative Amnesia

Dissociative Fugue

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Depersonalization Disorder

Who is Eligible for A Service Animal

Prescribing a Service Animal

Finding a Service Animal

Certification?

Cost of a Service Animal

Housing & Transportation

Author: Pat Gonser

Email: pgonser@usamail.usouthal.edu

Home Page: http://www.usouthal.edu

Other information:
Slides from a presentation delivered October 28, 2000 at the American Psychiatric Nurses' Association annual conference

This presentation copyright 2000 by Patricia A. Gonser. Reproduction prohibited without permission from the author.

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