Current Issues in Behavior Modification with Mentally Retarded Persons

Whitman, Thomas L.; Hantula, Donald A.; Spence, Brenda H.

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“…Clinical strategies based on principles of operant learning applied and evaluated in inpatient and residential facilities have been documented to be efficacious therapy protocols for a wide range of problems experienced by adults with mental retardation and concomitant emotional and behavioral disorders. Problems treated include fears and phobias, toileting problems, deficient speech skills, eating disorders, deficient self-help skills, obesity, anxiety disorders, aggression, conduct disorders, sociopathic behaviors, self-stimulation, self-injurious behavior, ruminative vomiting, specific behaviors symptomatic of schizophrenia and major depression, enuresis, encopresis, coprophagy, and specific behavioral deficits associated with autism (for more extensive reviews, see Bornstein, Bach, & Anton, 1982; Scibak, 1986; Whitman, Hantula, & Spence, 1990; Whitman, Scibak, & Reid, 1983).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such operant-based behavioral procedures described in the literature include a variety of contingency management strategies such as differential reinforcement, token economies, punishment, time out, prompting, overcorrection, and satiation. In a recent review, Whitman et al (1990) noted that the treatment outcome literature evaluating such behavioral strategies in general has improved in terms of its methological rigor. For example, most of the related studies reviewed included some form of reliability check.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Outpatient psychotherapy for adults with mental retardation and concomitant psychopathology: Research and clinical imperatives.

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Nezu²

1994

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Historically, the perceived relation between mental illness and mental retardation has undergone substantial changes. During the past 2 centuries, clinical observations and systematic research addressing these 2 constructs have developed along separate lines. Consequently, the pathogenesis and treatment of psychopathology, emotional disorders, and behavior problems experienced by individuals with mental retardation have not been the purview of mainstream clinical psychology. This article initiates a special section on mental retardation and mental illness to provide up-to-date summaries of various key clinical and research issues regarding this population (i.e., individuals with "dual diagnoses").

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Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Outpatient psychotherapy for adults with mental retardation and concomitant psychopathology: Research and clinical imperatives.

Nezu¹,

Nezu²

1994

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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“…Early research on the treatment of behavior disorders in the mentally retarded involved a "behavior modification" orientation in which an individual's behavioral repertoire was modified to achieve the elimination or near-elimination of a given aberrant response (Whitman, Hantula, & Spence, 1990). Early behavior modification studies in this area included successful demonstrations of the treatment of the entire range of aberrant response topographies exhibited in institutional settings (Schroeder, Mulick, & Schroeder, 1979).…”

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confidence: 98%