Desensitisation and counterconditioning — not a task for the enthusiastic amateur!

Learning is a change in an animal's capacity for expressing a behaviour due to a particular experience (Lieberman, 1993). Learning is about how the environment alters behaviour (Mills, 2009); although...

An introduction to developmental problems in puppy hood

The 19th and 20th century psychologists argued long and hard over the relative influences of nature and nurture on an individual's behaviour. The current consensus is that both the genetic background...