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How Do I Meet the Trainer Standards for Practice Certification?

There are no Fear Free trainers near me – how do I meet the trainer standards?

This webinar features a review of the practice certification process and an in-depth look at the Mandatory Physical & Emotional Standard 1.11: “When training and behavior modification strategies are employed, they must be free from aversives and adhere to scientific principles for humane handling techniques”.  Think you know what it means and just want to be sure?  Have no idea what it means or how the standard can be met?  Either way, this webinar is for you!

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Practice Certification Info: Client Education

Practice Certification Info: Client Education

What makes client education Fear Free? In less than 5 minutes, this webinar provides an overview of client education “dos and don’ts” to ensure your client education library meets the Fear Free Certified Practice Standards.

Help! I think I want to get my practice Fear Free Certified, but I don’t know where to start!

Help! I think I want to get my practice Fear Free Certified, but I don’t know where to start!

Are you interested in finding out what it takes to become a Fear Free Certified Practice?  Have you already started the process but aren’t quite sure what comes next?  Then please join us for a review of why you would want to and how you go about becoming a Fear Free Certified Practice!

Care of Hospitalized and Boarding Patients

Care of Hospitalized and Boarding Patients

Dr. Rachel Abrams

Join Fear Free Practice Certification Manager Dr. Rachel Abrams for an overview of the path to practice certification and a discussion about preventing and alleviating FAS in your hospitalized and boarding patients.

Case Management of Fear, Anxiety, Stress, and Pain

Case Management of Fear, Anxiety, Stress, and Pain, sponsored by Zoetis

Ralph C Harvey, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVAA, UTCVM

Pain adversely affects the fearful, anxious, and stressed patient. These clinical issues are tightly interrelated, and we best manage them together. In this webinar, Dr. Ralph C. Harvey, a specialist certified by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, presents clinical cases demonstrating effective management of this deleterious continuum so as to enhance favorable outcomes for patients, clients, veterinary personnel, and practices.

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Vaccinations for the Mind: Positive Puppy Socialization

Vaccinations for the Mind: Positive Puppy Socialization

Monique Feyrecilde, CVT, VTS (Behavior)

Puppies should explore the world and the people with whom they share it. When clients bring home a puppy, they have a golden opportunity to protect their newest family member from fear and anxiety later in life. By making a positive puppy transition and socialization plan, owners can help puppies have a smooth and happy puppyhood, adolescence, and adulthood. In this Fear Free webinar, sponsored by Ceva, Monique Feyrecilde, CVT, VTS (Behavior) covers techniques, products, and client education to get puppies started off on the right paw; how early detection and intervention can help shy puppies blossom; and more. Sponsored by Ceva.

Fear Free: Evolving to the Hospitalized, Emergent, and Sick Patient

Fear Free: Evolving to the Hospitalized, Emergent, and Sick Patient, sponsored by Zoetis

Dr. Tamara Grubb, PhD

In this webinar, board certified veterinary anesthesiologist Dr. Tamara Grubb, PhD, discusses the interconnectedness of pain with fear, anxiety, and stress, and examines therapeutic and diagnostic strategies for both. Topics covered include the relationship between FAS and pain, diagnosing and treating both pain and FAS, reducing FAS in the hospitalized patient, and FAS and pain in the emergency setting. The relationship of pain with fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS) – a relationship that works both ways – is crucial for veterinary professionals who seek to treat their patients’ physical and emotional health. How can the veterinary professional best understand, diagnose, and treat both pain and FAS?

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The Vital Role of Client Service Representatives

In this one-hour module, client service representatives will learn how to quickly assist pets entering with FAS, educate clients about Fear Free in person and on the phone, guide them in preparing their pets for future visits, provide resources and referrals, organize community outreach activities, and create protocols for the whole team to follow.

This module is open to all professionals that are already signed up for the certification program.

    The Vital Role of Client Service Representatives is divided into five lessons:

  • Lesson 1: Communicating with Clients
  • Lesson 2: Creating a Welcoming Experience
  • Lesson 3: Advising Clients on Transporting Pets
  • Lesson 4: Reducing FAS in Other Pet Activities
  • Lesson 5: Getting Involved in Community Outreach

Feline Destructive Scratching Solutions

In this one-hour module, you will learn what natural functions scratching serves for cats; common owner responses to scratching and the problems associated with them; and the potential fallout from declawing cats. Most importantly, you’ll come away with several safe and effective alternative solutions to the problem of unwanted scratching, and a made-for-owners handout to help guide them in the right direction.

This module is open to all professionals that are already signed up for the certification program, and is RACE approved for 1 hours in the category of Scientific.

    Feline Destructive Scratching is divided into five lessons:

  • Lesson 1: Feline Scratching Defined (The Good)
  • Lesson 2: Scratching as a Problem for Owners (The Bad)
  • Lesson 3: Common Responses (The Ugly)
  • Lesson 4: Why Not Surgically Declaw Cats?
  • Lesson 5: Safe, Effective Alternatives to Declawing
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