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The Modification of Stereotyped and Self-injurious Behaviour by Room Management: Six Single Case Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

A. G. Crisp  and
P. Sturmey
A. G. Crisp
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool
P. Sturmey
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Abstract

Anecdotal evidence suggests that room management is useful in controlling the frequency of behavioural excesses in severely/profoundly handicapped persons. This study involves a systematic investigation of the effect of room management on inappropriate behaviour. Data was collected over a 10-day period on each of six subjects who manifested a range of stereotyped and self-injurious behaviours. Each day formed an ABA design, A representing baseline conditions and B, room management. Room management proved to be helpful in controlling the behaviour in some instances. For other subjects it was clearly not successful. This outcome is discussed in terms of inter- and intra-subject variability in response to environmental change.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 350 - 366
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1987

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