About the Authors

Mary Beth Spitznagel

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Beth Spitznagel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mspitzna@kent.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

John Martin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Nikki E. Bennett

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher Was

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher M. Fulkerson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West LaFayette, Indianna, United States of America

Jim Weisman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West LaFayette, Indianna, United States of America

Luca Giori

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Erin Kelly-Snyder

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Veterinary Technology Program, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Alanna S. G. Updegraff

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

Michael P. Twohig

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Michael E. Levin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Spitznagel regularly receives honoraria for presenting research related to this topic and running the original version of the Unburdened training program as a workshop. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.