1. Evaluating a treatment without extinction for elopement maintained by access to stereotypy
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Emily M. Brewer, Megan A. Boyle, Samantha M. Carton, Lauren A. Gaskill, and McKenzie T. Bacon
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Male ,Problem Behavior ,050103 clinical psychology ,Sociology and Political Science ,05 social sciences ,Stereotypic Movement Disorder ,Extinction (psychology) ,medicine.disease ,Developmental psychology ,Philosophy ,Stereotypy (non-human) ,Behavior Therapy ,Functional Communication ,medicine ,Humans ,Autism ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Autistic Disorder ,Stereotyped Behavior ,Child ,Psychology ,Functional analysis (psychology) ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
Elopement is a common and potentially dangerous form of problem behavior. Results of a functional analysis found that the elopement of a child with autism was maintained by access to stereotypy in the form of door play. We implemented functional communication training and contingency-based delays dependent on the absence of elopement and increased the amount of time the participant waited prior to engaging in stereotypy. We also conducted treatment-extension probes, with the participant waiting up to 10 min without elopement.
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- 2020
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