Brogan Kristen M, Rapp John T, Niedfeld Amanda M, Coon Jodi C, Everhart Newman Jan L, Burkhart Barry R
1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
Behav Modif. 2017 Nov;41(6):788-807. doi: 10.1177/0145445517716675. Epub 2017 Jun 22.
Some adjudicated adolescents receive treatment for their offenses in residential facilities. Detained adolescents' engagement in either low levels of compliant behavior or excess behavior (e.g., swearing, gestures) while following commands from residential personnel may result in decreased opportunities for those youth to access preferred activities. The current study employed nonconcurrent multiple baseline across participants designs to evaluate the effects of a procedure to increase seven detained adolescents' quiet compliance with academic and vocational demands. Results show that problem behavior decreased to zero or near-zero levels for each participant during simulated conditions and suggest that self-control, alone or in combination with a differential reinforcement of low rate behavior for omitting problem behavior, may have been responsible for the behavior changes. We discuss some clinical implications of the findings.
一些被判决的青少年在寄宿设施中接受其犯罪行为的治疗。被拘留的青少年在听从寄宿设施工作人员的指令时，若表现出低水平的顺从行为或过度行为（如骂人、打手势），可能会导致这些青少年获得喜爱活动的机会减少。本研究采用跨参与者的非同期多重基线设计，以评估一种程序对增加七名被拘留青少年在学业和职业要求方面安静顺从程度的效果。结果表明，在模拟情境中，每个参与者的问题行为都减少到了零或接近零的水平，这表明自我控制，单独或与对消除问题行为的低频率行为进行差别强化相结合，可能是行为改变的原因。我们讨论了这些发现的一些临床意义。
