SCHEDULE – Behaviour at the Beach – Monday 5 June through Friday 9 June 2023:
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 7.00-8.00a | BREAKFAST – Please come on time to the first breakfast where you can start to meet people – Intros start at 7.30A | BREAKFAST | BREAKFAST | BREAKFAST | BREAKFAST | |
| 8.00A-10.00A | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall Taking a behavioural history on every patient: forms, questions, interventions, next steps and treating dogs and cats in general practice | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall 1.How do behavioural medications work? 2. Neurochemical pathways and receptor function drive behavioural presentation and medication choice | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall 1. Understanding communication in canine aggression: the key to diagnosis and treatment 2. Understanding communication in canine anxiety and fear: the key to diagnosis and treatment | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall Behavioural mod in practice and life: understanding and meeting individual dogs’ needs by watching and interacting with them | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall “Reactive” dogs: GAD, SA, Noise reactivity, OCD – what are the neurochemical, mechanistic and genetic links, and what does this mean for treatment? | |
| 10.00-10.30A | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | |
| 10.30-12.30p | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall 1. Pursuing diagnosis and treatment for all behavioural cases 2. Be prepared and plan for success: What do the epidemiology data tell are the problems we can most expect to see? | Lectures Dr. Goncalo Pereira Fractious and fetid felines: From history to treatment – top 3 pharmaceutical interventions for aggressive cats and cats who spray and do not use their litter box | Lectures Dr. Kersti Seksel Case studies of working with client and patient communication | Lectures Dr. Goncalo Pereira How important is pain and illness? | Lectures Dr. Goncalo Pereira Age-related cognitive change: assessment, prevention, intervention | |
| 12.30-1.30P | LUNCH | LUNCH | AFTERNOON ON YOUR OWN | LUNCH | LUNCH | |
| 1.30-3.30P | ARRIVAL | Lectures Dr. Kersti Seksel 1. How do we learn? 2. Overview of behavioural and environmental modification terms and interventions – what do you use when? | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall 1. What happens when your first choice of medication fails? 2. Beyond trazodone: Sedation v. anxiolysis and polypharmacy | Lectures Dr. Kersti Seksel Understanding entrapment and punishment from the patient’s eyes | Lectures Dr. Karen Overall Updates on the literature – things you will want your clients to know | |
| 3.30-4.00P | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | ||
| 4.00-6.00p | Drs. Karen Overall, Goncalo Pereira and Kersti Seksel Case discussions: Integrating behavioural medicine into every aspect of daily veterinary practice | Drs. Karen Overall, Goncalo Pereira and Kersti Seksel Case discussions: Which drug, which patient? | Drs. Karen Overall, Goncalo Pereira and Kersti Seksel Case discussions: Understanding how ‘temperament’, ‘valence’ and early experience interact with your treatment plan | Drs. Karen Overall, Goncalo Pereira and Kersti Seksel Case discussions: Emergent topics, shaped by participants | ||
| 6.00P | Dinner and evening on own | Departure | ||||
| 7.00P + | Optional Professors’ Table* for 10-12 attendees | Optional Professors’ Table* for 10-12 attendees | Optional Professors’ Table* for 10-12 attendees |