TY - JOUR
T1 - Use of a token economy to eliminate excessive inappropriate social behavior in an adult with developmental disabilities
AU - LeBlanc, Linda A.
AU - Hagopian, Louis P.
AU - Maglieri, Kristen A.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Adults with developmental disabilities frequently have both deficits in appropriate social skills and excesses in inappropriate social behavior. 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. 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. (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
AB - Adults with developmental disabilities frequently have both deficits in appropriate social skills and excesses in inappropriate social behavior. 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. 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. (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
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U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1099-078X(200004/06)15:2<135::AID-BIN51>3.0.CO;2-3
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1099-078X(200004/06)15:2<135::AID-BIN51>3.0.CO;2-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034112686
SN - 1072-0847
VL - 15
SP - 135
EP - 143
JO - Behavioral Interventions
JF - Behavioral Interventions
IS - 2
ER -