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Further evidence of renewal in automatically maintained behavior |
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| Authors: | John Michael Falligant Michael P. Kranak Drew E. Piersma Ryan Benson Jonathan D. Schmidt Michelle A. Frank-Crawford |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Department of Human Development and Child Studies, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA Center for Autism, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA;3. Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Abstract: | Renewal is a relapse phenomenon that refers to the recurrence of a previously reduced behavior following a change in stimulus conditions. Muething et al. (2022) examined the phenomenology of renewal among individuals with automatically maintained challenging behavior treated at an outpatient clinic. We replicated their findings by retrospectively examining renewal across various topographies of automatically maintained behavior treated at an inpatient hospital, and we extended their work by also examining differences across subtypes of automatically maintained self-injurious behavior. The prevalence of renewal was comparable to that observed by Muething et al., supporting the notion that automatically maintained challenging behavior is susceptible to relapse phenomena. Furthermore, renewal was twice as likely to occur for individuals with Subtype 2 versus Subtype 1 self-injurious behavior, providing additional evidence of behavioral differentiation between subtypes. Our findings suggest that even after apparent stability in treatment, practitioners should remain vigilant for the recurrence of automatically maintained behavior during generalization. |
| Keywords: | automatic challenging behavior relapse renewal self-injury |