The Human Half of Dog Training: Collaborating With Clients to Get Results

Description

The Human Half of Dog Training: Collaborating With Clients to Get Results

by Rise VanFleet, Ph.D., CDBC

ISBN: 9781617811036

Publisher: Dogwise Publishing

Publication Year: 2013

Format: Trade Paperback

Pages: 153

From the back cover:

“Most dog trainers have a strong desire to help dogs learn appropriate behaviors and solve the kinds of problems that most dogs experience or create. It is why they get into the business in the first place and it is what they are trained to do. What is challenging for so many trainers is that their success in working with dogs depends ultimately on the cooperation, understanding and follow-through of the people who bring their dogs to them to be trained. Failure to work with people often leads to failure with the dogs. In The Human Half of Dog Training, author Rise VanFleet draws upon her years of experience of working with people as a child and family psychologist to teach dog trainers how to take a collaborative approach with clients to insure the best possible outcomes for their dogs.

You will learn

• The vital skill of empathic listening so that the trainer truly understands the needs and goals of the client.
• How cognitive distortions and resistance can disrupt the trainer/client relationship.
• How to work with a family in cases where spouses or children may complicate the trainer/client relationship.
• Ways to handle common objections and to get clients to commit to training programs.”