Descriptive characteristics of extinction bursts: A record review

Muething, Colin; Cariveau, Tom; Bottini, Summer; Slocum, Sarah; Williams, Catherine; Gillespie, Scott; Scheithauer, Mindy

doi:10.1002/jaba.1054

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“…One such consequence of behavioral approaches is referred to as "extinction bursts," which are temporary increases in the intensity, frequency, or duration of the problem behavior (Skinner, 1938;summarized in Lattal et al, 2020). Extinction bursts are estimated to occur about 25% of the time following extinction procedures (Lerman & Iwata, 1995;Muething et al, 2024). Extinction procedures can also cause increases in other problem behaviors that were already in an autistic person's behavioral repertoire, or can cause new problem behaviors to emerge (Fisher et al, 2023).…”

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“…None of the studies included in the current study mentioned adverse events, and this is especially problematic for interventions that attempt to reduce or eliminate behaviors, since behavioral researchers have already established that adverse consequences to implementing these approaches are common (Lerman & Iwata, 1995;Muething et al, 2024). Monitoring for these possibilities would require holistic assessment of autistic participants' functioning, wellbeing, and social ecologies (e.g.…”

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Problems with “problem behavior”: A secondary systematic review of intervention research on transition-age autistic youth

Bottema-Beutel,

McKinnon,

Mohiuddin

et al. 2024

Autism

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In this secondary systematic review of single-case and controlled group design intervention studies conducted with transition-age autistic youth, we examined features of 48 studies with 273 participants that measured at least one “problem behavior” outcome (Prospero registration number: 231764). We searched 11 databases for relevant studies, and the final search date was November 2022. Our primary aims were to determine how problem behaviors were defined and selected for reduction, how functions were determined, and the interventions used to address them. Studies were coded and codes were tabulated and converted to percentages to answer each research question. Thirty-eight percent of studies defined problem behavior, and 88% of studies implemented behavioral strategies to reduce problem behaviors. Behaviors with low potential for harm constituted the majority of the 67 outcome variables (61%), while behaviors with high potential for harm were a minority (39%). The most common intervention target was stereotypic behavior. Fewer than half of studies: reported procedures for selecting behaviors, reported procedures to determine behavior function, or ascribed functions to behaviors. We were unable to report on some demographic features of participants (e.g. race/ethnicity) because they were rarely reported in primary studies. We conclude that problem behavior is poorly conceptualized in this research. Lay abstract In a previous study, we looked at research done on strategies to support autistic people who were between 14 and 22 years old. For this study, we looked at all of the studies in our previous study that tried to decrease or stop autistic people from doing certain things—many researchers call these things “problem behavior.” There were 48 studies that tried to reduce problem behavior, and most of them used strategies like prompting and reinforcement to try get autistic people to change their behavior. We found many things wrong with these studies. Most of them did not define the group of behaviors they were trying to stop autistic people from doing. None of the studies looked at whether any side effects happened when they tried the strategy they were studying. Also, most of the studies tried to stop autistic people from doing behaviors that probably were not harmful, like stereotypic behavior. Most of the studies did not say how they decided that the behaviors they tried to stop were a problem for the autistic people in the study, and most studies did not try to figure out why the autistic people in the study did the behaviors the researchers were trying to stop them from doing.

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Section: Adverse Impacts Of Behavioral Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%