Treatment of Emotional Distress and Disorders – Pharmacologic Methods
SHARON CROWELL-DAVIS Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Diagnostic Imaging, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 25.1 Why Use Medications? All of the emotions are a consequence…
Mental Health Issues in the Horse
DANIEL S. MILLS, CLAIRE RICCI-BONOT, AND SOPHIE S. HALL Animal Behaviour Cognition and Welfare Group, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK 17.1 Introduction Equids fit a unique…
The Mental Health and Well-being Benefits of Personal Control in Animals
FRANKLIN D. MCMILLAN Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah, USA The value of perceived control in the lives of humans and nonhuman animals (hereafter animal) has been the subject of…
The Problems with Well-being Terminology
FRANKLIN D. MCMILLAN AND JAMES W. YEATES Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, Utah, USA; Cats Protection, Haywards Heath, UK 2.1 Introduction Suppose you were given the task of looking at one…
Fostering Mental and Behavioral Wellness During Upbringing and Throughout Life
DANIEL Q. ESTEP AND SUZANNE HETTS Animal Behavior Associates, Sun City, Arizona, USA Historically, concern for the welfare of animals has focused on the relief of suffering through the prevention…
The Mental Health of Laboratory Animals
CARINE ELKHORAIBI, AMY ROBINSON-JUNKER, GINA ALVINO, AND LARRY CARBONE Institutional Animal Care and Use Program, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of California, San…
The Relationship Between Mental and Physical Health
MELISSA BAIN AND C.A. TONY BUFFINGTON Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California, USA 4.1 Introduction Animals interact with their environments on a time constant…
Subjective Well-being, Happiness, and Personality in Animals
ALEXANDER WEISS AND LAUREN M. ROBINSON Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria 9.1 Background and…
