Elimination of vomiting in a retarded female using restitutional overcorrection

Identifying the Educative and Suppressive Effects of Positive Practice and Restitutional Overcorrection

“…The findings from the present experiment are consistent with previous research (Doke & Epstein, 1975;Foxx, 1976a) in demonstrating that restitution is primarily a punitive procedure; but are not consistent with the views of other researchers who have labeled restitution as educative (Duker & Seys, 1977;Foxx, 1976b;Foxx & Azrin, 1972), at least if the behaviors to be acquired do not preexist in the client's repertoire. We thus agree with Epstein et al's (1974) conclusion that dissimilar positive practice procedures are able to suppress responding.…”

“…However, there is little research investigating possible educative effects associated with either procedure. Some authors have reported that restitution is mainly punitive (Doke & Epstein, 1975;Foxx, 1976a) but claims for its educative value have also been made (Duker & Seys, 1977;Foxx, 1976b;Foxx & Azrin, 1972). Positive practice has also been regarded as punitive (Epstein, Doke, Sajwaj, Sorrell, & Rimmer, 1974;Foxx, 1977;Harris & Romanczyk, 1976; Kelly & Drabman, 1977;Luiselli, Helfen, & Pemberton, 1977;Rollings, Baumeister, & Baumeister, 1977) but also has been described as primarily educative or reeducative (Azrin, Gottlieb, Hughart, Wesolowski, & Rahn, 1975;Azrin & Powers, 1975;Azrin & Wesolowski, 1974).…”

The rate and amount of food intake as determinants of vomiting

“…Psychogenic vomiting for both retarded and nonretarded individuals has been treated by behavioral procedures (see review by Davis & Cuvo, 1980) such as aversive shock (Lang & Melamed, 1969;Kohlenberg, 1970;Luckey, Watson, & Musick, 1968); time-out (Wright, Brown, & Andrews, 1978); social extinction (Wolf, Birnbrauer, Williams, & Lawler, 1966); liquid irritants (Sajwaj, Tibet, & Agras, 1974); and overcorrection (Azrin & Wesolowski, 1975;Duker & Seys, 1977). Food intake factors have also been found to influence this "psychogenic" vomiting as in the use of satiation (Jackson, Johnston, Ackron, & Crowley, 1975); increased oral stimulation and participation of infants in feeding (Ball, Hendricksen, & Clayton, 1974); and changing food consistency (Ingersoll & Curry, 1977).…”

Overcorrection: A Critique

“…Crowley and Armstrong (1977) also employed overcorrection (with other techniques) in the successful treatment of three encopretic children. Duker and Seys (1977) eliminated persistent vomiting in a retarded woman by restitutional overcorrection plus differential reinforcement of other kinds of behaviour. There have also been several attempts to reduce stereotyped and self-injurious forms of behaviour using overcorrection (Epstein et al, 1974;Rollings et al, 1977;Harris and Romanczyk, 1975;Measel and Alfieri, 1976;Zehr and Theobald, 1978;Matson et al, 1978,)*…”