Meet the Instructor:

Dr. Yvonne Eaton-Stull is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Slippery Rock University (SRU) in Pennsylvania.  She teaches several courses in animal-assisted social work and coordinates the SRU animal-assisted social work certificate.  She is also a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in crisis intervention, forensic social work, and animal-assisted social work and has provided clinical intervention to children and adults for many years.  She has a therapy dog and crisis response dog, Chevy, and she has provided animal-assisted crisis response following crises and disasters throughout the United States, such as the Virginia Tech shooting, Indiana Tornados and Washington D.C. Navy Yard shootings.  Her recent research has included implementing animal-assisted interventions in state prisons and jails to address stress and anxiety, self-harm, and grief and loss.