Abstract
The therapeutic workplace is an employment-based abstinence reinforcement intervention for unemployed drug users where trainees receive on-the-job employment skills training in a classroom setting. The study is an extension of prior therapeutic workplace research, which suggested that trainees frequently violated noise standards. Participants received real-time graphed feedback of noise levels and had the opportunity to earn monetary group reinforcement for maintaining a low number of noise violations. Results suggested that feedback and monetary reinforcement reduced the number of noise violations.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 840-844 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of applied behavior analysis |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2014 |
Keywords
- group contingency
- monetary reinforcement
- noise reduction
- real-time feedback
- therapeutic workplace
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Applied Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science