This book contains 16 chapters that discuss mental and emotional health in the veterinary practice, ruling out physical disorders leading to behavioural changes, addressing pain in veterinary psychiatry, normal behaviour, raising mentally and emotionally healthy pets, diagnosis, learning principles ...

This chapter reviews some of the most common presentations of psychiatric diseases that result from a physical disease. In addition, approaches to different patients and suggested diagnostic tests are discussed.

This chapter focuses particularly on the features of pain that are relevant to changes in behaviour and their impact on the emotional state of the animal.

This describes the preweaning influences on puppies and kittens and the implications for a new pet owner selecting a dog or cat, the advice which the veterinary profession can give to minimize the risk of problem development in dogs and cats through appropriate early life experiences, some critical ...

This chapter describes the clinical signs and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in cats and dogs.

This chapter discusses how managing contingencies within the social and physical environment can be used to bring about predictable changes in behaviour to support the management of a range of problems in cats and dogs. It considers those practices and practical outcomes that alter the specific...

This chapter presents the use and efficacy of some of the most commonly used medications and several less commonly used medications to treat psychiatric conditions and abnormal behaviours of cats and dogs.

The clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment of owner-perceived behavioural problems in cats and dogs are described.

This chapter addresses one of the most concerns that pet owners may have, starting with management problems and aggression in cats.

The neurophysiological and behavioural characteristics of aggression in dogs and how to address it are discussed.