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Ken McCort
running time: 45 min.
copyright: 2007
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Wild canids have genetically produced sequential behavior patterns that
are necessary for survival, and our domestic dogs have fragments of
these behaviors. When put in the wrong context, these behaviors can be
problematic.
Ken McCort has been a professional animal trainer and behavior
consultant since 1986. In addition, he is very involved in
Animal-Assisted Activity and Therapy programs, especially in pediatric
hospitals. His wife is a veterinarian, and they live on a small farm
with about 50 animals of 11 different species. Taped
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Niki Lamproplos, MA,
CDBC
running time: 45 min.
copyright: 2007
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Taking a History will cover the process and art of interviewing and
observing the client to uncover the significant factors that are
contributing to the animal's problem behavior. Niki will focus on
the skills and techniques needed to connect with clients and get the
information that can help us develop effective plans for intervention.
Niki Lamproplos' background is in psychology, and she spent many years
working as a therapist in mental health settings. She has had a private
dog behavior consultation
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Lynn Hoover
running time: 46 min.
copyright: 2007
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A central component of the IAABC's certification process for animal
behavior consultants is our focus on developing the "person of the
consultant" and "the use of self' as instruments of change. This
session will introduce specific strategies to expand problem ¬solving
possibilities in family systems through the effective use of consultant
self.
Lynn Hoover is president and founder of the IAABC
and has a private dog behavior consulting practice in Pittsburgh. She is
a Clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy (AAMFT), with more than 20 years of experience
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Beth Adelman, Brenda
Aloff, Debbie Strother, Liz Wilson
running time: 1 hr. 5min.
copyright: 2007
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A bite is a bite is a bite ... or is it? In fact, a behavior that looks
similar across all species can, in fact, be extremely different from
species to species. We will take a single problem-biting-that occurs
in cats, parrots, horses and dogs and present a single case study in
each species that illuminates the species-specific underpinnings of the
behavior.
Moderator: Beth Adelman, MSJ, CCBC. Panel members:
Beth Adelman, MSJ, CCBC (cat ), Brenda Aloff, CDBC (dog), Debbie
Strother, MS, BCBA, CHBC (horse), Liz Wilson, CVT, CPBC (parrot)
Beth Adelman is a behavior consultant and a
publishing professional. She currently writes The Cat Lady column for
the New York Post. Beth is also the former editor in chief of Cats
magazine and DogWorld, and former managing editor of the ARC Gazette,
and has won several awards from the Dog Writers Association of America
and the Cat Writers Association. She has edited more than 100 books
about companion animals. She is currently co-editor of Animal Behavior
Consulting: Theory and Practice and is on the IAABC board of directors.
Her book, Every Cat's Survival Guide to Living With a Neurotic Owner, is
a multiple awar4 winner.
Brenda Aloff has been training dogs
professionally for 15 years. She is the author of three books:
Positive Reinforcement: Training Dogs in the Real World; Aggression in
Dogs:
Practical Management, Prevention & Behaviour Modification; and Canine
Body Language. Brenda specializes in working with aggression problems in
dogs.
Debbie Strother specializes in working with
Thoroughbred horses, especially former racers, and with blind horses.
She also works with horse trainers to develop the best plan for horse
and rider. In addition, Debbie is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst for
humans, with expertise in autism other developmentally diabilities. She
has also worked with wolves and wolf hybrids, training at the
International Wolf Center, and was involved in the project to bring the
wolves back to Yellowstone National Park. At home, she has trained and
shown Cocker Spaniels.
Liz Wilson is a veterinary technician who has
worked with parrot behavior for more than 15 years, and is a well-known
speaker and writer in the companion parrot and avian veterinary worlds.
She is the founder and chair of the IAABC's Parrot Division, as well as
treasurer and a member of the board of directors. She has eight textbook
chapters to her credit and a regular scolumn in Bird Talk Magazine, as
well as two books that are compilations of many of her article. Taped
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Steve Dale
running time: 55min.
copyright: 2007
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A kitten's brain is a terrible thing to waste. Just as there are
puppy classes, there are now classes for kittens. These
classes-which have been going on for a decade in Australia-, , teach
clients how to train cats, and why you'd want to bother training a cat
in the first place. But most important, they encourage vet visits (cats
see vets less than half as often as dogs) and pre-empt bad behavior
before it happens-and if it does happen, cat owners have a resource in
the behavior consultant who teaches the class.
Steve Dale writes the Tribune Media Services
syndicated newspaper column My Pet World, which appears in more than 100
newspapers nationwide. He's a contributing editor at USA
Weekend; the host of two syndicated radio shows (Steve Dale's Pet World
and The Pet Minute) and also Pet Central on WON Radio. Steve has
presented on kitten socialization at several conferences, including APDT
and A VMA. Taped
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Chris Bach
running time: 1 hr. 4min.
copyright: 2007
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We all know the power of reinforcement in modifying behavior, yet why
does it sometimes seem to cause as many problems as it solves? Why
do dogs become dependent upon the presence of reinforcers for
performance and why must training programs include having to fade the
use of them? We’ll discuss the incredible ability random schedules of
reinforcement have on modifying behavior and how to apply these
principles in the most effective way possible when teaching new skills.
The hypothesis presented will be that because they are almost impossible
to maintain without conscious effort or computer generated templates,
maybe they could and should be eliminated and replaced with a system
that is even more effective.
Chris Bach is an IAABC board member. Her life-long study of dogs and the
dog-human relationship has resulted in her development of The Third Way,
a unique and effective program for problem prevention, problem solving
and teaching skills to dogs and their humans. Taped
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Brenda Aloff
running time: 55 min.
copyright: 2007
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Enhance your knowledge of canine body language. This presentation
will further develop your ability to understand your clients' dogs.
Brenda Aloff has been training dogs professionally for 15 years. She is
the author of three books: Positive Reinforcement: Training Dogs in the
Real World; Aggression in Dogs: Practical Management, Prevention &
Behavior Modification; and Canine Body Language. Brenda specializes in
working with aggression problems in dogs. Taped IAABC
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Lee Livingood
running time: 45 min.
copyright: 2007
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The seminar will cover developing a marketing plan, packaging
yourself and your services, increasing referral relationships, and
strategies for growing your business that are based on your budget and
style.
Lee Livingood has been owned by a dog since the day she was born. She
has been training dogs for nearly half a century and has lived with and
trained cats for 30 years. She has been an animal behavior professional
for over 10 years. Lee is the author of Running with the Big Dogs: The
Gentle Art of Turning Your Retired Racing Greyhound into Your Best
Friend and Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies, the 2001 Dog Writers
Association of America Maxwell Award winner. She has been a regular
columnist for Celebrating Greyhounds and writes for The International
Bengal Cat Connection. Her informational series, Here Kitty, Kitty and
Raising Rover, are distributed widely by local veterinarians. She offers
classes on behavioral issues for new and potential dog and cat adopters
and on combining children and pets for parents-to-be as well as manners
classes for dogs and puppies of all ages. She serves as a behavior
consultant to several dog and cat rescue / adoption groups
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DVD #1
- FROM LEASHES TO NEURONS
DVD #2
- PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Item# 200553 -
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Karen Overall
running time: DVD #1 - 1 hr. 53 min.
running time: DVD #2 - 1 hr. 15 min.
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IAABC (International Assoc of Animal Behavior
Consultants)
2007 Conference Keynote Speaker
FROM LEASHES TO NEURONS: How dogs think, why this matters, and
what we can learn from them about becoming more humane
Psychopharmacology has become a popular, and
sometimes mandatory addition to treatment regimes for canine and feline
patients with behavioral problems; however, clients and
practitioners should be dissuaded that behavioral drugs are 'quick
fixes'. Veterinarians should only prescribe psychotropic medication when
they have a specific idea of how the mechanism of action of the drug
will affect the target behaviors associated with a specific diagnosis.
The diagnosis must be treated rather than non-specific signs. Newer
psychotropic medications demonstrate the extent to which truly abnormal
behaviors are dysfunctions of neurochemistry; synaptic or cellular
metabolism; or genetic encoding and 'learning', or LTP, hence there is a
clear role for the interaction of neuropharmacology and behavioral and
environmental modification.
Future advances in treatment in behavioral
medicine will be pharmacological and neurophysiological. As the
field of behavioral medicine expands, its paradigm will enlarge to
include combination therapy and the implementation of
neuropharmacological intervention as a diagnostic tool. At present, the
veterinary practitioner can effectively aid many common behavioral
problems using extant drugs to treat animals with true behavioral
pathology. Rational pharmacological therapy requires complete medical
and behavioral histories, requisite laboratory work, complete client
understanding and compliance, and an honest and ongoing dialogue between
the client and veterinarian that includes frequent follow-ups and
re-examinations. © 2001 Harcoun Publishers Ltd
Dr. Karen Overall received her B.A. and M.A.
degrees concomitantly from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. After
a year spent at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama
she was awarded her V.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, School
of Veterinary Medicine in 1983. She completed a residency in Behavioral
Medicine from the same school in 1989. Her Ph.D. in Zoology was awarded
by the University of Wisconsin ¬Madison for research focusing on mating
systems and physiology of a protected lizard.
Dr. Overall has given hundreds of national and
international presentations and short courses and is the author of over
100 publications on behavioral medicine and lizard behavioral ecology.
She has also been a regular columnist for both Canine and Feline
Practice journals and currently writes a bimonthly column for DVM
Newsmagazine. Her best selling textbook, Clinical Behavioral Medicine
for Small Animals, was published by Mosby in 1997. Her new book,
Handbook of Small Animal Behavioral Medicine, to be published by
Saunders, should be out by the end of year 2007.
Dr. Overall is a Diplomat of the American
College of Veterinary Behavior and is certified by the Animal Behavior
Society as an Applied Animal Behaviorist. Dr. Overall's research
interests focus on the development of genetic and behavioral animal
models for human psychiatric illness, particularly those involving
anxiety, panic, and aggression for which she has been generously and
continuously funded Dr. Overall frequently consults with service dog
organizations including military and narcotic dog groups, Guide Dogs for
the Blind, Canine Companions for Independence and with law makers
regarding legislation affecting dogs. She was awarded the 1993 Randy
Award for excellence and creativity in research and is frequently
honored to be a visiting scholar at a variety of universities. Her other
interests include integration of conservation biology into veterinary
medicine, international outreach and participation in student based
community outreach initiatives. Taped
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