Empowerment Training: Training for Creativity, Persistence, Industriousness, Resilience & Behavioral Well-Being
by James O'Heare
NEW
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.
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