Fuhrman Ashley M, Fisher Wayne W, Greer Brian D, Shahan Timothy A, Craig Andrew R
Children's Specialized Hospital-Rutgers University Center for Autism Research, Education, and Services (CSH-RUCARES).
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Behav Dev Bull. 2021 Apr;26(1):29-42. doi: 10.1037/bdb0000101.
Clinicians frequently prescribe functional communication training (FCT) as a treatment for severe destructive behavior. Recent research has shown that FCT treatments are susceptible to treatment relapse in the form of resurgence of destructive behavior when individuals contact periods in which reinforcers are unavailable. Results of preliminary studies suggest that teaching multiple response alternatives can mitigate the resurgence of target behavior. The current evaluation serves as a preliminary study in which we used a laboratory arrangement to evaluate the effects of a novel approach to training multiple alternative responses on the resurgence of target behavior. Findings showed that multiple-response training did not decrease resurgence of target responding consistently; however, it increased the total amount of target and alternative responding observed during the resurgence phase and decreased the overall probability of the target response.
临床医生经常将功能性沟通训练（FCT）作为严重破坏性行为的一种治疗方法。最近的研究表明，当个体处于强化物不可用时，FCT治疗容易以破坏性行为的再次出现形式出现治疗复发。初步研究结果表明，教授多种反应替代方式可以减轻目标行为的再次出现。当前的评估作为一项初步研究，我们采用实验室设置来评估一种训练多种替代反应的新方法对目标行为再次出现的影响。研究结果表明，多反应训练并不能持续降低目标反应的再次出现；然而，它增加了再次出现阶段观察到的目标和替代反应的总量，并降低了目标反应的总体概率。
