Dog Training Diploma Course

The comprehensive and insightful Dog Training Diploma Course will provide you with a good academic base in the way that dogs think, learn and act. Based only on the most up-to-date research, kindest methods, and training advice that has been scientifically proven time and time again, the course will provide you with a good grounding for training your own dog or offering dog training advice to others.

What You Will Learn

This is an eight-unit course, packed full of essential information that talks of dog training and behaviour in a holistic style. We teach you how to communicate with, work with, and understand dogs and what exactly they are trying to say, at all times.

The most problematic behaviours that dogs display are usually based on a lack of understanding. Each unit is packed full of current research and advice on dog training and behaviour and how you can best communicate with and train your dog.

Become a Professional Dog Trainer

The Dog Training Diploma Course also teaches you how you can use your new skills to help others, on a personal and professional basis, what you need to do in order to become a dog trainer and how to become as knowledgeable and professional as you possibly can be.

Whilst dog training is a self-regulated profession at the moment it’s important that you use this course as a base of knowledge then continue to study, all of the recommendations for further study will be described within the course and the information described within will certainly be a good start in a dog training career if that’s a route you wish to pursue.

This course will also work perfectly with our other related courses on canine nutrition, behaviour and holistic therapy.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Dog Training Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. The course comes with a course assessment in the form of quizzes, written questions and short essays, once you have completed your course assessment please email or post it back to us for marking, you will then receive your feedback and certificates.

Course SyllabusIntroductionModule 1: Dog Training

• Why Educate?
• The Wolf Pack Theory
• Flaws of the Theory
• Modern Dog Training and Research
• Unit 1 Assessment

Module 2: How Dogs Learn

• Variations in Learning Speed
• Types of Learning (Conditioning)
• Reinforcement
• Punishment
• Escape and Avoidance Learning
• Maladaptive Learning
• Counter Conditioning
• Vicarious Learning
• Latent Learning
• Generalisation
• Discrimination
• Extinction
• Biological Factors
• Chaining Behaviours
• Unit 2 Assessment

Module 3: Observation and Communication

• Why is Observation So Important?
• Canine Communication
• Calming Signals
• Is The Dog Happy?
• Unit 3 Assessment

Module 4: Reward and Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement
• BF Skinner
• Variable Reward
• Negative Reinforcement and Positive Punishment
• Science Daily
• Negative Punishment
• Unit 4 Assessment

Module 5: Puppy Development & Training Classes

• Nature
• Hormonal Influence
• Nurture
• Social Learning and Science
• Puppy Classes
• Puppy Farm Dogs
• Unit 5 Assessment

Module 6: Training Skills

• Implementation
• Clicker Training
• Tuning In
• Marking a Behaviour
• Luring
• Shaping
• Clicker Dangers
• Learning in Context
• Dog Training – An Easy Blueprint
• Unit 6 Assessment

Module 7: Individual Consultations

• The Dog Behaviour Advice Pyramid
• Separation Anxiety
• Behaviour Adjustment Therapy
• Case Study
• Aggression
• What should I do if a dog attacks me?
• Unit 7 Assessment

Module 8: Your Dog Training Future

• Professional Behaviour
• Know the Law
• The Dangerous Dogs Act UK
• 2014 Amendment DDA
• Livestock
• Insurance
• Small Business Management
• Registering as a Sole Trader
• Tax
• National Insurance
• Your Growing Business
• Unit 8 Assessment
• Resources

Resources

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included