{"id":5688,"date":"2015-08-18T06:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2015-08-18T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:49:19","slug":"the-power-of-puppies-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/the-power-of-puppies-for-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Puppies for Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5689\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A new program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called UNC Paws is harnessing the cuteness of puppies to help improve the lives of people. Puppies are brought to The Farm at Penny Lane in Pittsboro, N.C., where they are socialized for 10 weeks at the Puppy Development Center. Sunny Westerman and her team of volunteers bring the dogs all over, including farmer\u2019s markets, homes for seniors and fire stations. Then the pups are brought to a women\u2019s prison in West Virginia where they are formally trained as service dogs. Once they complete their training they are paired with a veteran suffering from PTSD.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #191919;\">Thava Mahadevan, MS, Director of Operations <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0started\u00a0<\/span>the farm and puppy program\u00a0at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, to help people lead more healthy and social lives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #191919;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ut8HGJj_RY4\" width=\"614\" height=\"351\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called UNC Paws is harnessing the cuteness of puppies to help improve the lives of people. Puppies are brought to The Farm at Penny Lane in Pittsboro, N.C., where they are socialized for 10 weeks at the Puppy Development Center. Sunny Westerman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","category-psychology"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",95,53,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",300,168,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/download-2.jpg",150,84,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/other\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/health\/psychology\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Psychology<\/a>","tag_info":"Psychology","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}