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- Title
Use of a token economy to eliminate excessive inappropriate social behavior in an adult with developmental disabilities<FN>The reviewer Nancy Neef acknowledges one of her doctoral students, Delia Ben Chaabane, for completing the review of this manuscript under her supervision. </FN>
- Authors
LeBlanc, Linda A.; Hagopian, Louis P.; Maglieri, Kristen A.
- Abstract
Adults with developmental disabilities frequently have both deficits in appropriate social skills and excesses in inappropriate social behavior (Matson, LeBlanc, & Weinheimer, 1999). Typically, published treatment studies have focused on social skills training procedures that teach and promote the use of new social behaviors. However, only a few studies have focused on management of existing social behaviors that are problematic because they occur excessively or in an inappropriate context (Wright, Herzog, & Seymour, 1992). The current study focuses on management of three types of inappropriate social behavior in a 26-year-old male with moderate mental retardation: inappropriate social interactions, inappropriate sexual behavior, and verbal aggression. A token economy with response cost procedure was implemented using a DRO interval as the basis for earning tokens. Using a multiple-baseline design across behaviors, each of the three types of inappropriate social behavior was successfully treated. After demonstrating the success of the procedure, the DRO interval was increased while maintaining the reductions in inappropriate social behaviors. Appropriate behaviors such as initiating conversation, shaking hands, etc maintained throughout the intervention. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
TOKEN economy (Psychology); REWARD (Psychology); INTERPERSONAL relations; ADULTS; PEOPLE with disabilities; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2000, Vol 15, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-078X(200004/06)15:2<135::AID-BIN51>3.0.CO;2-3