Full Description
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.
Step-by-step guidelines describe how to collect a patient history, perform a thorough physical examination, conduct diagnostic testing, formulate differential diagnoses, select treatment, and monitor the patients' responses.
Background information describes how dog and cat behavior problems arise and how they can be prevented.
Coverage of behavior modification techniques provides you with a clear understanding of suggested treatment as well as the use of drugs, products, pheromones, surgery, diet, and alternative therapies.
Content on behavioral genetics explores this rapidly growing and advancing field and includes new therapeutic approaches for cognitive decline.
Case studies illustrate real-life clinical situations.
Easy-access treatment tables provide at-a-glance solutions to common behavior problems.
Useful appendices include treatment protocols as well as the drug information and dosages that make effective prescribing easy.
NEW! Many hot new topics are covered, including fear, anxiety, and stress and their effects on health and behavior, as well as pain and behavior, the psychobiological approach to veterinary behavior assessment, and pets and the family dynamic.
NEW! Updated chapter content is extensively augmented or completely rewritten by new authors, making this more than just a new edition - it's a new book!
NEW! eBook version is included with print purchase which allows access to all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Online access also includes handouts and forms, drug dosing, and a comprehensive directory of resources.
Contents
1 Behavior Medicine and the General Practitioner Amy Learn
2 Development, social and communicative behavior Ashley Elzerman
3 Pet Selection and the genetics of behavior Lowell Ackerman
4 Pets and the Family Dynamic Emily Levine
5 Prevention: the best medicine Andrea Tu
6 All body systems affect behavior Alison Gerken
7 Physiologic Stress and its Effect on Health & Welfare Melissa Bain
8 The effects of aging on behavior in senior pets Shana Gilbert Gregory
9 Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment Lisa Radosta
10 Treatment - Behavior modification techniques Lore Haug
11 Treatment-Pharmacologic intervention Leticia Dantas
12 Treatment-Complementary and alternative therapy Megan Petroff
13 Feeding and diet-related problems Meaghan Ropski
14 Anxiety, fear and phobia Carlo Siracusa
15 Noise Aversion Kelly Ballantyne
16 Reducing Fear, Anxiety and Stress in Veterinary Visits Amy Learn
17 Separation Related Disorders Ariel Fagen
18 Sterotypic and compulsive disorders Colleen Koch
19 Unruly and destructive behaviors - Canine Wailani Sung
20 Unruly and destructive behaviors - Feline Krista Sirois
21 Housesoiling - Canine Valarie Tynes
22 Housesoiling - Feline Alison Gerken
23 Aggression - Canine Lisa Radosta
24 Aggression - Feline Krista Sirois
25 Problem behaviour an evidence based approach based on neuropsychobiology Daniel Mills
Appendix A - List of Handouts and Forms Team
Appendix B - Behavior Resources Team
Appendix C - Printed versions of Handouts and Forms Team
Appendix D - Drug Dosages Team
