Avoiding Faux Paws & Pitfalls with Emotional Support Animals: Using the SxyC Model of Clinical Efficacy for ESA Letters

Learn the issues, pitfalls, and concerns of Emotional Support Animals (ESA) and ESA letter requests as a professional. This comprehensive book will inform you of the previous and current research out there on the benefits, concerns, and ethical dilemmas of ESAs for professionals who may be asked to write one within the clinical setting. This book introduces a novel model to approach ESAs and ESA letter requests from an objective, clinically sound, and medical necessity perspective. Whether you write them, get them, love them or hate them, this book is for you to feel more professionally comfortable and clinically effective in the world of Emotional Support Animals. This book was intended for the fields of counseling, psychology, and therapy, however, can be applicable to Animal Trainers, Behaviorists, Disability Evaluators, Forensic Evaluators, Therapists, Counselors, Veterinarians, medical staff, and all others who come across or fearful of a request coming their way one day. This book has hopes of starting a conversation, a body of research, and a wake up call to the professions that ESAs need to be done ethically, correctly, and appropriately for all to benefit. Let's do ESAs the right way! Read more