Behavioural Medicine I, Milano / I 12.-16.09.2005
Course Masters in charge: Dr Joël Dehasse (B)
Dr Clara Palestrini (I)

Overview:
Basic behavioural medicine: which aims at understanding and solving the most common clinical conditions. It includes an introduction to basic techniques of behaviour consultations and then focuses on practical problem solving, addressing issues such as aggression in dogs and soiling in cats.

Topics:
- The Vet. Behavioural Medicine consultation: frames, problems, demand, expectations, contract, semiotics, diagnoses, therapies, follow-up & psychels, limits
- Dog and cat behaviour development (ontogeny)
- Dog and cat ontogeny disorders, such as hyperactivity, deprivation and dyssocialisation
- Workshops on communication, body language, client bonding and consultation framing & dog and cat ontogeny disorders
- Aggression in dogs - danger evaluation, influencing factors & psychopathology, sequence, postures
- Aggression in dogs - descriptive-contextual classification, diagnosis of dog and system disorders
- Workshops on aggression in dogs (evaluation and diagnosing)
- Social behaviour in dogs: ontogeny of attachment and hierarchy
- Social behaviour disorders: separation related disorders, hierarchy related disorders
- Workshops on social behaviour (disorder) management
- Learning theories
- Principles of behaviour therapies
- Principles of therapeutic strategies, including psycho-pharmacy
- Workshops on learning theories and therapeutic strategies
- Territorial organisation and marking behaviours of the cat
- Soiling and marking-related, territory related disorders in cats
- Cohabitation disorder, anxiety in closed surroundings, etc.
- Workshops on feline behaviours and soiling disorders

Detailed information on the web site www.esavs.org