Transform your professional services with the most effective and humane ways to work with fear-based behavior challenges.
If you live or work with a dog or other animal struggling with fearful, shy, reactive, or aggressive behaviors, you have come to the right place for a course to help you become more effective in the rehabilitation and training of this vulnerable population.
Since the start of the pandemic there has been a notable increase in dogs and other animals experiencing fearful, shy, reactive, or aggressive behaviors. As a result, it is crucial for professionals to develop more effective methods for rehabilitating and training this at-risk population.
This course will help you transform your professional services with the most effective and humane ways to work with fear-based behavior challenges, along with any behavior issue that threatens the quality of life and welfare of pets and their owners.
Bring your love and compassion for animals to the data-driven and evidence-based practice of training. By the end of this course you will be more confident in your ability to work with animals struggling to feel safe in their world.
“I’m blown away by the depth of this course.”
Lisa Skavienski, CTC, CSAT, FFCP, Owner of Dog Educated
"Debbie, I remain so excited about this project. I think it's really important. So many thing to like: Your talking about mindfulness and attention in training is excellent and people will like it."
Sara Matters, MA Animal Behavior, Owner & Founder Lemon's Hope Sanctuary & Training Matters
The basics of Applied Behavior Analysis can be used in many settings to assess and create training plans and interventions for animals struggling with fear, reactivity & aggression and other challenging behaviors. Join the ranks of trainers and animal welfare professionals who recognize the value of evidence-based management and teaching.
Dog Trainers: Deepen your expertise by learning how to craft tailored training plans for animals with problem behaviors, expanding your ability to help dogs and their owners.
Rescue Organizations: Gain valuable insights to inform foster care strategies and improve the well-being of animals in your care.
Shelters: Enhance the management of animals with behavioral challenges to increase their chances of finding forever homes.
Foster Care Givers: Equip yourself with effective training techniques to provide the best possible care and rehabilitation for animals with fear, reactivity, anxiety, and aggression issues.
Vet Technicians: Understand behavior basics and learn how to approach and handle animals with fear-based behaviors, ensuring their safety, and your own, during veterinary procedures.
Animal Behaviorists: Broaden your knowledge base and refine your skills in working with fear, reactivity, anxiety, and aggression, enabling you to develop comprehensive behavior modification plans.
Animal Welfare Professionals: Enhance your understanding of behavior challenges and gain practical tools to support animals in need, both within rescue organizations and in the community.
Pet Owners: Discover effective methods to address common behavioral challenges in your pets, enabling you to create a harmonious and loving environment for your furry companions.
What's Ahead
FREE PREVIEWBe Here Now As A Trainer
What Skinner Had To Say About Behavior
FREE PREVIEWThe Braid
FREE PREVIEWHow We Train
Quiz-How We Train
The Basics
Quiz-The Basics
Quiz- Reinforcement Schedule
Links to Pat Friman Videos
Stimulus Control
Excerpt of 'Patient Like the Chipmunks'
Shaping Operant Behavior & Reinforcement Schedules
Generalization, Discrimination & Motivation
Working With Fearful Animals
Why Behavior Changes
Premack, Hi P Low P & Behavioral Momentum
Premack Principle
What Is Behavioral Momentum?
Why Evidence-based Training is Important
Getting into the Data Habit
How To Teach Animals by B.F. Skinner
The Problem of Privacy and the Evolution of Emotion and Emotional Behavior T. V. Joe Layng, Ph.D.
Non-Linear Contingencies
Private Events
Learned Helplessness
Learned Helplessness
What A Behavior Analyst Has To Say
Bringing Joy To Learning
Introduction to ABA for Animal Trainers
Some History of Operant Conditioning & Animal Training
FREE PREVIEWHappy, Relaxed (or excited but not upset) & Engaged
Today's ABA
Understanding What You're Seeing
Distinguishing Between Discriminative And Motivational Functions Of Stimuli
The Matching Law & Relative And Absolute Strength Of Response As A Function of Reinforcement
Walking In The Woods With Dogs: Science & Human Behavior by B. F. Skinner
Functions of Behavior
Quiz-Functions of Behavior
Functional Analysis of Problem Behavior: A Review
Motivating Operations
Learning: Schedules of Reinforcement
Simple Reinforcement Schedules
Make It Worth Doing
Using Variable Schedules
Electronic Collars: What You Need To Know
Contingencies of Reinforcement
Fear of Novelty
Aversive Control
Viewing Behavior Through a Trauma Informed Lens
Link to Video: New Science on How Human Genes Shape Behavior
Behavior Reduction Strategies To Be Able To Identify
Alternatives To Aversives
Quiz- Problem Behavior
AVSAB Position Statement The Use of Punishment for Behavior Modification in Animals
Scared Dog Body Language
Sound Phobia Body Language
Practice Observing Body Language
Working With Animals in Transition
Coercion and It's Fallout
The Smallest Unit Of Behavior
Learning
Behavior A(ttention)
Pairing aka Building Rapport aka Trust
Fading in Demands
Classical Conditioning
Quiz-Conditioning
Capturing Behavior With A Shy Dog
Training Recalls & Check-ins
Independent Variables
Practice Following A Training Plan
Free Shaping
Getting Behavior
Using Targeting to Shape A Behavior
Practical Skill Building
Using Prompts
What's The Cue? What Do You Want It To Be?
Matching Law Quiz
"I’ve been implementing so much of what I learned at your training lately and am feeling continuously inspired"
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