Stewart G, Van Houten R, Van Houten J
Psychology Department, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1992 Summer;25(2):335-9. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1992.25-335.
This study investigated whether withdrawn adults living in a residential center for psychotic and mentally handicapped persons could serve as peer therapists to increase the social interaction of other withdrawn residents. Two pairs of residents served as participants. Treatments were introduced and evaluated within a multiple baseline with reversal design. After baseline, the peer therapist was instructed to increase the social interactions of a target peer through engagement in social interactions. The results demonstrated that the peer therapist increased the social interactions of target peers. However, these increases did not generalize to other residents until the introduction of a multiple peer therapist condition. The percentage of time the peer therapists interacted with other nontarget residents also increased throughout the study. These results were maintained during a 4-month follow-up condition.
本研究调查了居住在精神病和智力障碍者居住中心的孤僻成年人是否可以作为同伴治疗师,以增加其他孤僻居民的社交互动。两对居民作为参与者。在多重基线反转设计中引入并评估治疗方法。在基线期之后,指导同伴治疗师通过参与社交互动来增加目标同伴的社交互动。结果表明,同伴治疗师增加了目标同伴的社交互动。然而,在引入多个同伴治疗师的条件之前,这些增加并没有推广到其他居民身上。在整个研究过程中,同伴治疗师与其他非目标居民互动的时间百分比也有所增加。在4个月的随访期间,这些结果得以维持。