- Increase in patience, impulse control, emotional regulation
- Improved ability to display affect, decrease in emotional numbness
- Improved sleep
- Decreased depression, increase in positive sense of purpose
- Decrease in startle responses
- Reduce anxiety & lower blood pressure
- Decrease in pain medications
- Increased sense of belonging/acceptance
- Lowered stress levels, increased sense of calm

From Service Dog Training Program for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress in Service Members - Yount, Olmert, Lee published: US Army Medical Department Journal 2012