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First Online: 2 October 2019

Compliance with Ethical Standards

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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. The authors do wish to avoid any perceived conflict. One author, who owns and directs a for-profit agency devoted to training and certifying clinicians working with dogs in mental health, developed the AAT interventions used in our study.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of two institutional research committees (Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board, IRB registration number: IORG0000433; Metropolitan State University of Denver Institutional Review Board, IRB registration number: IRB00005388) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.