Using pretreatment and posttreatment assessments to enhance and evaluate existing treatment packages. |
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Authors: | D M Richman W K Berg D P Wacker T Stephens B Rankin J Kilroy |
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Affiliation: | University of Iowa, USA. |
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Abstract: | Pretreatment assessment data were used to enhance an existing treatment package to reduce aggression and to increase positive social interactions between a young boy and his peers. Based on the results of pretreatment assessments, additional reinforcement (differential reinforcement of alternative behavior with adult attention) and punishment (performing a nonpreferred task during time-out) components were added to an existing nonresetting differential reinforcement of other behavior (access to peers unless aggression occurred) plus time-out procedure. A posttreatment component analysis of the additional treatment components indicated that the reinforcement component facilitated positive social interactions and the punishment component suppressed aggression towards peers. |
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Keywords: | component analysis differential reinforcement of other behavior differential reinforcement of alternative behavior punishment |
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