A animal therapy program using donkeys at a French psychiatric hospital has demonstrated measurable improvements in patient outcomes, with staff and patients reporting significant benefits. Organizers are now pursuing formal research to standardize the practice and scale it across other facilities.
Good News Network · Thursday, 11 June 2026
An animal therapy program at a psychiatric hospital in France is providing major improvements in care outcomes for patients. This is reported by the patients themselves, observed by hospital staff, and presented by the program organizers, who now want proper research done into the practice to help standardize it and allow it to be available […] The post Therapy Donkeys Prove Such a Balm of Calm to Psychiatric Hospital That Organizers Look to Expand appeared first on Good News Network.
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