113 - Consulting Skills


Course Title: Consulting Skills - 113 

Credits: 2 (Approx. 28 work-hours)

Instructor: James O'Heare, CABC

Course Description

This course provides detailed instruction on aspects of consulting clients professionally, interacting effective with clients and understanding legal issues involved in professional consulting and dog training. 

Students should emerge from this course with a foundation understanding of: consulting skills, interpersonal attending skills, managing behavioral cases, legal issues in dog training. 

Working as a trainer or professional dog behavior consultant in most cases means coaching clients to train their dogs or carry out a behavior change program. Guardians are under intense stress in many cases due to the problem behavior you are called on to advise them on. In many cases the consultant will have to deal with families with divergent or ambiguous goals and expectations. This course will help the student understand their role and the role of the client in working with the dog on modifying problem behaviors as well as how to communicate effectively and work with the client to achieve behavior modification goals. 

This course is evaluated by way of assignments.
Students should emerge from this course with a foundationalunderstanding of:
  • Consulting skills
  • Interpersonal attending skills
  • Managing Behavioral cases
  • Liability and legal issues

Course Texts

  • One on One A Dog Trainer's Guide to Private Training by Nicole Wilde
  • Pet Behavior Protocols by Suzanne Hetts
  • Avoiding Liability When you Train, Shelter or Adopt-out Seminar and essential legal documents DVD by Kenneth Phillips (available through www.dogbitelaw.com)
  • Clinical Behavioral Medicine for Small Animals by Karen Overall (Chapters 1, 2, and 16)
  • Practical Counseling and Helping by Philip Burnard
  • (Recommended but not required): The Family in Dog Behavior Consulting by Lynn D. Hoover
  • (Recommended but not required): Getting a Grip on Aggression Cases by Nicole Wilde

Enrollment Package Includes

  • Coursework document with assignments and course notes
  • Student Handbook
  • Access to Classroom, with transcripts from Guest Visits and handouts
  • Free membership with IIACAB and to all issues of its journal JACAB
  • Access to your Instructor for one-on-one guidance
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Schedule

The course begins as soon as your enrollment is complete and you receive your enrollment package. Although we allow 3 months for this course, you are free to complete the course sooner if you can, and we do allow extensions if need be.

Prerequisites

None

CCPDT Credits: 6.5

Tuition

$200 Cdn. (Currency Converter) + 4% fee for for online payments. Textbooks not included in tuition. They may be purchased through http://www.dogwise.com, http://www.amazon.com, http://www.abebooks.com or http://www.half.com in most cases. Also check the Student Library. Canadian Residents 5% GST.

Enrollment

Visit the "ENROLL" page and follow the application instructions.


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