Guide Note: A Psychiatric Service Dog is a service dog who is partnered with a person who has a psychiatric disability.
Fast Facts:
- Psychiatric Service Dogs are most commonly used by people with a major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder (manic depression), post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, anxiety disorders, or schizophrenia.
- Psychiatric Service Dogs can be any breed.
- Psychiatric service dogs have the same rights as other types of service animals, such as seeing eye dogs.
