Teach your Psychiatric assistance dog to indicate that you are having a panic attack or to interrupt increasing #anxiety or self-harm behavior.
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0:00 Choose the Alert Behavior
0:46 Build Persistence in the Alert
1:11 Add a Verbal Cue
1:51 Choose the Anxiety or Self-Harm Behavior
2:12 Pair the Behavior With the Alert
2:47 Fade the Verbal Cue
2:58 Proof and Generalize the Alert
3:15 Beyond the Anxiety Alert Task
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Im a dog trainer and have been trying to train this, my dog harry is a littke confused in the topuc but hes still very new to it, so i do understand his confusing but hes been getting better wuth his alerts tysm!
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Umm..thank you
i havent trained a dog before, but ive seen other strategies so here is one you can try if this doesnt work out for your dog
for this, im gonna example using hitting yourself
firstly, clench you hand into a fist with treat inside, then once they nudge (or the cue you want them to do) reward them with the treat. once this is good, try doing it without a treat and then giving them the treat after once they alert. then you can move on to hitting yourself (or the cue your gonna do) you might need to put a treat inside your hand again, but you might not! depends on the dog. praise/reward them after they alert and keep soing this training!
boom you have a task fully trained.