Description
This best-selling, practical book on behavior therapy offers
easily-accessible information in a user-friendly approach. With this
essential handbook, veterinarians don't need to be behavior specialists
to provide optimum care for clients with behavior problems. The 2nd
edition provides at-a-glance solutions to common behavior problems,
offering updated information on preventive and basic counseling advice,
as well as new material on the link between genetics and behavior. All
treatment protocols have been drawn from and text and compiled into a
convenient appendix in the back of the book. Staff responsibilities and
the team approach to behavior counseling are also discussed.
Audience
Veterinary practitioners
Veterinary nurses
Contents
1. Behaviour counseling and the veterinary practitioner
2. Puppy and kitten development
3. Prevention: the best medicine
4. Behaviour
counseling and behavior diagnostics
5. Treatment: behavior modification techniques
6. Phamacologic intervention in behavioural therapy
7. Complementary and alternative therapy for behavior problems
8. Feeding and diet related problems
9. Pain assessment, pain management,
sedation and anesthesia
10. Stereotypic and compulsive disorders
11. Fears and phobias
12. The effects of aging on behavior in senior
pets
13. Unruly behaviors, training and management - dogs
14. Unruly behaviors, training and management - cats
15. Canine destructive
behaviors
16. Feline destructive behaviors
17. Canine house-soiling
18. Feline house-soiling
19. Canine aggression
20. Feline aggression
21. The European approach to behavior counseling
Appendix A (tables listing where figures appear in text)
Appendix B (manufacturers
and resource list)
Appendix C (handouts and forms)
Appendix D (dosage table)