Behavioral medicine and the general practitioner -- Developmental, social, and communicative behavior -- Pet selection and the genetics of behavior -- Pets and the family dynamic -- Prevention: the best medicine -- All body systems affect behavior -- Physiologic stress and its effect on health and welfare -- The effects of aging on behavior in senior pets -- Approach to the diagnosis and treatment -- Behavioral treatment techniques, behavior modification, and learning theory -- Pharmacologic intervention in behavioral therapy -- Treatment -- integrative medicine -- Feeding and diet-related problems -- Fears, phobias, and anxiety disorders -- Noise aversion -- Reducing fear, anxiety, and stress in veterinary clinics -- Separation-related disorders -- Abnormal repetitive behaviors: stereotypies and compulsive disorders -- Unruly and destructive behaviors -- canine -- Unruly and destructive behaviors -- feline -- House soiling -- Canine -- House soiling -- feline -- Canine aggression -- Feline aggression -- The psychobiological approach to problem behavior assessment.
Summary:
"Behavior Problems of the Dog & Cat, 4th Edition retains the highly practical approach that has proved so successful in previous editions, offering diagnostic guidelines, preventive advice, treatment guidelines and charts, case examples, client forms and handouts, and product and resource suggestions, along with details on the use of drugs and natural supplements to help optimize the behavior services offered in practice." -- Provided by publisher.
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