Progressive Reinforcement Training for dogs?

[pulykamell]

@araminty

Dog trainers are kind of notorious for picking and choosing the bits of various training methods that they like, giving it a name and/or trademark, and dismissing the rest of the field. I googled up a Progressive Reinforcement Training Manifesto. It reads OK, but, like Hello Again, I’d be skeptical of a trainer that is trying to completely remove punishment from their repertoire entirely.

Are “time outs” and reprimanding with the word “no” allowed in this training method? If so, then it sounds pretty much like what we do with our rescue pup, and it works well (at least with him. He is treat-motivated, toy-motivated, and doesn’t like being left away from his humans.)