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Opis

„CONTEMPORARY BEHAVIOR THERAPY OF COMPANION ANIMALS”

'MOOD MATTERS' - EMOTIONS AND MOOD - APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EMOTIONS AND EMOTIONALITY IN THE PRACTICE OF DIAGNOSING THE CAUSES OF BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS AND IN TRAINING AND THERAPEUTIC WORK WITH ANIMALS AND THEIR CARERS

Saturday 22 / Sunday 23 of June 2024

University of Agriculture in Kraków, Congress Centre, 31-482 Kraków, Poland
 

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE 

Two years after the last conference organized by COAPE Polska and COAPE Association of Pet Behaviourists  and Trainers  we are pleased to announce the upcoming edition of the conference, with the intention of arranging it in this format every two years.

It is an overview of the latest knowledge and practice in the fields of companion animal behavior therapy and behavioral science. This time, we will focus on emotions and emotionality of animals, recognizing that these mental processes are the most important in the regulation of behavior, and that they can be modified at different levels as the key factor in animal therapy and training.

We will emphasize two aspects of animal emotionality - the importance of emotional well-being (mood) and the problems associated with emotions of fear and anger, which generate the most behavioral problems.

We are committed to holding the biennial conference with a leading theme and a longer speech by a special guest, as well as presentations on this topic by Polish animal behaviorists, veterinarians, and animal behavior researchers. 

In our opinion, the achievements and work of Polish animal behaviorists and trainers, as well as veterinarians interested in companion animal behavior therapy, in recent years, are impressive and stand out from the achievements of similar specialists in other European countries.

We have ambitions for our conference to become one of the most prominent conferences on behavior, behavior therapy and animal training in Europe and in our cultural circle. Therefore, all lectures will be translated simultaneously from Polish to English and from English to Polish.
 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

• Karin Pienaar - Mood Matters - An innovative approach to assessing animals' emotionality in the therapy of behavioural problems.
• Sybilla Berwid-Wójtowicz - Emotional microbiota or microbiota that arouses emotions?
• Michał Dzięcioł - Emotions and chemical communication - what is invisible and what matters.
• Magdalena Michałek - The influence of the caregiver's emotions on the course of dog behavioral therapy.
• Marcin Przybyło - Nature's best! Behavior patterns of wild animals as a determinant of the welfare of animals kept under human care.
• Barbara Szczygieł - The interaction of emotional states between a behaviorist and a dog that has gone through something like this as a starting point in conscious therapy for dogs in a shelter.
• Beata Węgrzyn - AI and behaviourism - whether and how  artificial intelligence will help in understanding animal behaviour and whether it can affect their well-being.
• Martyna Woszczyło - Mood and emotions in the context of pharmacotherapy - a multimodal approach to diagnostics and behavioral therapy of dogs and cats.
• Marcin Urbaniak - The hypothesis of the affective niche of companion animals and its function in experiencing emotions.
• Agnieszka Żółtowska - What love has to do with it? Emotional health of hospitalised feline patients. The perspective of a veterinarian and animal behaviourist.