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Behavior Change Project Management: Assessment & Intervention to Resolve Problem Behaviors
COMING mid 2010
Behavior Change Project Management provides a thorough introduction to a behavior analytic approach to working through behavior change projects to resolve problem behaviors. It works through the three major elements of behavior change projects: functional assessment, construction and implementation of a behavior change program and maintaining it in the long run. Unlike as is common in medical model approaches, the behavior analytic approach is systematic and solidly science-based. It describes how to develop a contingency statement through interviewing, direct observation and functional analysis and then how to select and apply the appropriate behavior change procedures for a comprehensive behavior change program and finally how to generalize the learning to the learner's every day environment for the long term. It will not provide proprietary system or anecdotally devised approach but rather relies on the well established and highly effective and efficient natural science of behavior: applied behavior analysis.
Empowerment Training: Conditioning for General Behavioral Well-being in Companion Animals
COMING late 2010
Empowerment Training is a guide for animal trainers to promoting behavioral well-being in companion animals by conditioning empowerment. It brings together a vast body of research on topics related to empowerment and general behavioral well-being, summarizing the research findings and providing practical rehabilitation tactics. It presents a triadic model of empowerment, characterizing empowerment by persistence / industriousness, emotional resilience and creativity. It discusses how we can train for empowerment, rehabilitate disempowered animals and contributes to allowing for the best possible experience in life. Shaping is discussed in great detail as a key empowerment training procedure. It also discusses social bonds and the rehabilitation of motivationally conflicted relationships.
Aggressive Behavior in Dogs: A Comprehensive Technical Manual for Professionals
by James O'Heare
Aggressive Behavior in Dogs is a comprehensive technical manual, written for dog behavior professionals. It discusses understanding aggressive behavior in dogs, functionally assessing the behavior and constructing systematic behavior change programs, as well as consulting skills and case management. Comprehensive and systematic, it favors a behavioral approach. It includes an extensive glossary and functional assessment forms. Dog behavior consultants may find the companion Dog Aggression Workbook useful as an adjunct to client consultation.
by James O'Heare
The Dog Aggression Workbook is an interactive guide for guardians of dogs who behave aggressively. The workbook presents a systematic and highly efficient and effective, positive reinforcement-based approach to understanding, assessing and changing aggressive behaviors in dogs. Strategies and techniques are described clearly and completely in a conversational style that is easy to read and understand. Guardians will be armed with the tools they need to address all kinds of aggressive behavior problems, while avoiding harsh punitive techniques. The workbook utilizes a behavioral approach, focusing on identifying specific problem behaviors, what evokes them and what consequences are maintaining them. It explains how to implement desensitization and behavior replacement procedures to change emotional responses and the aggressive behaviors they motivate. Taking a global and comprehensive approach, it addresses the whole context in which aggressive behaviors are performed.
The Dog Aggression Workbook will be a useful compliment for Aggressive Behavior in Dogs, a manual written for professional behavior consultants as a means of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of professional consultation. Short and inexpensive, it would make a useful adjunct to consultation.
Dominance Theory and Dogs is an in-depth examination of the notion of social dominance and how it applies to domestic dogs. Social dominance is one of the most controversial topics in the dog behavior and training field and is rife with confusion and misunderstanding. This book will explore sociability and conflict management in general, then explore exactly what is and is not social dominance, and finally, what value it might hold. It will be argued that while social dominance may be of some use in ethology or social-psychology fields, it is of very little, if any, use with explaining, predicting and changing companion dog behavior. It will be argued that the use of social dominance models with companion dogs is harmful because of its emphasis on an adversarial mindset. A behavioral approach to explaining, predicting and changing behavior will be proposed as a vastly more effective and efficient model for companion dog social behavior. On the APDT 2003 Top Ten New Books list.
by James O'Heare
Separation Distress and Dogs is a positive reinforcement based workbook for understanding, assessing and changing separation distress related behaviors in dogs. Written for guardians of dogs who exhibit distress behaviors when left alone, it presents an easy to follow, yet comprehensive, behavior change program, including systematic desensitization and behavior shaping, as well as empowerment training and relationship rehabilitation. It includes sections for professional behavior consultants.
This older book is now out of print but we are making it available in ebook format because I know that it is used in some courses. I don't really concern myself too much with the biology of behavior any longer, focussing on a behavior analytic approach and the functional relationship between behavior and the environment. But, a brief introduction to the biology can sometimes be useful.
Raw Meat Diets for Cats and Dogs? is an objective and critical evaluation of the advisability of feeding a raw meat-based diet to pet cats and dogs. It reviews the scientific literature on the issue and explores the arguments for such a diet. Most sources that have previously explored the topic have been decidedly non-objective. If you are interested in taking a careful, critical and objective look at this dietary trend Raw Meat Diets for Cats and Dogs? is the book to read.
