Volkert Valerie M, Lerman Dorothea C, Call Nathan A, Trosclair-Lasserre Nicole
Louisiana State University, LA, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2009 Spring;42(1):145-60. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-145.
Extinction-induced resurgence is the recurrence of previously reinforced behavior when another behavior is placed on extinction (Lieving, Hagopian, Long, & O'Connor, 2004). This phenomenon may account for some instances of treatment relapse when problem behavior recovers during extinction-based treatments. The current study sought to determine whether resurgence of problem behavior would reliably occur with 5 participants who received treatment with FCT. Results showed that problem behavior reemerged for all but 1 participant when the communicative response was exposed to extinction or thin schedules of reinforcement. These findings suggest that resurgence may account for some instances of response recovery during treatment, and that the described procedure may be useful for the further study of resurgence and eventual prevention of this phenomenon.
消退诱导的恢复是指当另一种行为处于消退状态时，先前得到强化的行为再次出现（利文、哈戈皮安、朗和奥康纳，2004年）。这种现象可能解释了在基于消退的治疗过程中问题行为恢复时治疗复发的一些情况。本研究旨在确定接受功能沟通训练（FCT）治疗的5名参与者是否会可靠地出现问题行为的恢复。结果显示，当沟通反应处于消退状态或接受稀疏强化程序时，除1名参与者外，其他所有参与者的问题行为都再次出现。这些发现表明，恢复可能解释了治疗过程中反应恢复的一些情况，并且所描述的程序可能有助于进一步研究恢复现象并最终预防这一现象。
