How to Approach Emotional Support Animal Requests: The Professional's Workbook : A Step-by-Step Guide for ESA Requests, Letters, Evaluations, and Determinations within your Practice

This workbook provides professionals with a linear and integrative approach to ESA animals and letter requests within healthcare. Pairs well with the author's original and additional book, "Avoiding Faux Paws & Pitfalls with ESAs", this slimmed-down and to-the-point manual provide easy-to-follow, step-by-step processes that utilizes Medical Necessity, Scope of Practice concerns, and ethical decision-making model options for ESA dilemmas. This combination of approaches makes any request quick and straightforward to determine if an ESA should be and could be included for treatment reasons versus demands. Feel confident and prepared with this workbook filled with handouts, forms, and recommendations for you as a mental health professional. This book welcomes medical and therapeutic providers due to the wide range of fields that get these kinds of requests. This book was written in tandem with the Client's Workbook version, meant to be used before, during, and after ESA requests, so you know what they see and are expected to provide based on these workbooks.