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- Title
Response Interruption and Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior for the Treatment of Pica.
- Authors
Hagopian, Louis P.; González, Melissa L.; Rivet, Tessa Taylor; Triggs, Mandy; Clark, Seth B.
- Abstract
Pica displayed by two individuals with autism was decreased by a treatment involving differential reinforcement and response interruption that altered the chain of behavior involved in pica (i.e., picking up items and placing them in the mouth). The treatment involved establishing prompts to 'clean-up' as a new discriminative stimulus (SD) for picking up items from the floor; and holding potential pica items was established as an SD for discarding those items in a trash receptacle, putting them away, or using them appropriately. After demonstrating the effectiveness of the treatment in an analog setting, the treatment package was systematically generalized to community settings. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); BEHAVIOR therapy methodology; PICA (Pathology); AUTISM; MOUTH; PHYSICAL therapy; SENSORY stimulation; INTER-observer reliability; DISEASE complications; PREVENTION; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 4, p309
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.339