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Learn how to build dogs' coping skills and decrease fear
using Behavior Adjustment Training. You'll see how to add BAT to your behavior
modification toolbox, including pitfalls to avoid and ways to integrate BAT with
other dog-friendly methods.
Behavior Adjustment Training is a system for
rehabilitating problem behaviors, including aggression, fear, pulling on leash,
and more. Just about any 'bad' behaviors that are maintained by the environment
can be replaced by more appropriate behaviors, using the same environmental
triggers and rewards.
When working with aggression, BAT uses *operant*
counter-conditioning with systematic desensitization to build social skills,
confidence around the trigger, and trust in the handler. While food or other
rewards are used with BAT in some cases, the main focus of BAT is on using
environmental rewards that already maintain the problem behavior.
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