Praise as correction

I was revisiting the Lee Charles Kelley blog and see that he has a new site at blogspot. I found this article particularly intriguing. I'll have to study it more carefully but on quick reading dogs (and other animals I suppose) do undesirable actions because they view the event in a negative way. The idea is to change the negative connection of the event. In this case, LCK uses something positive (praise or play) as the event happens and eventually the dog should associate it with something positive. Like when Victoria Stilwell gives treats to dogs to distract them from a negative stimulus. Or something like that.