Blog: mental health
What Is Compassion Fatigue?
The issue of burnout and compassion fatigue is an area of veterinary medicine that isn’t always apparent to those outside the profession. As with other helping professions, members of the team can struggle with ethical decisions and the demands of compassion stress.
Pet Therapy and The Human Animal Bond
Pet therapy, also referred to as animal-assisted therapy, helps to improve patients mental, physical, social, and emotional functioning with the aid of animals.