“…Stewart, Chang, & Rice, (2013) found that interacting with an appropriately qualified therapy animal often encourages nonthreatening interactions between people. Additionally, Stewart et al's (2013) findings suggested that the presence of a specially trained therapy animal positively impacted the climate of therapy and encouraged client relaxation (Barker, Knisely, McCain, Schubert, & Pandurangi, 2010;Cole, Gawlinski, Steers, & Kotlerman, 2007;Odenaal, 2000).…”