Katy Schroeder

How letting your mind wander can reset your brain ‘Attention restoration theory’ posits that allowing the mind to wander is important for restoring focus and attention.

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Loving and Losing Pets with E.B. Bartels, Rev. Sarah Bowen, and Karen Fine, DVM, at Bark! Fest A conversation about grief, loss, and how we memorialize our pets with authors E.B. Bartels, Rev. Sarah Bowen, and Karen Fine DVM

At Bark! Fest, we had a profound and moving conversation about pet loss and grief with authors @eb-bartels.bsky.social (Good Grief), Rev. Sarah Bowen (Sacred Sendoffs), and Karen Fine DVM (The Other Family Doctor). www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2025/05/lovi...

A catbird perches on the handle of a teal watering can.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌲🌸🦋

With tears and tail wags, San Quentin inmates reunite with puppies they raised into service dogs There were big smiles, hugs, tears and lots of tail wagging inside San Quentin’s prison recently. All the emotions came together when two black Labradors reunited with the incarcerated men who raised ...

Lovely story from San Quentin prison where Chase and Jared reunited with puppies they raised to become CCI service dogs 🦮🐾

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It's great to see new research using standardized assessments like the Fe-BARQ to inform future best practices in therapy animal selection.

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Love the teaming up these two organizations to help both people and their companion animals. It’s a great example of One Health/One Welfare in action.

2022. Are children and dogs best friends? A scoping review to explore the positive and negative effects of child-dog interactions peerj.com/articles/145... via @peerj.bsky.social

Local news shines a spotlight on a psychiatric service dog who makes a difference in his human’s quality of life 🐾🐾

Music therapists’ perspectives on nature-connecting methods and the integration of nature in music therapy: Results of a survey among German and Austrian music therapists Nature- and ecology-related topics are currently gaining increasing attention in healthcare and among healthcare professions. In music therapy, nature…

New co-author paper: Is there potential for integrating nature into music therapy?
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@jencius.bsky.social I’ll help spread the word!