ACCEPTABILITY OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR DEVIANT CHILD BEHAVIOR
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Vol. 13 (2), 259-273
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1980.13-259
Abstract
The acceptability of alternative treatments for deviant child behavior was evaluated in 2 experiments. Clinicial cases were described to undergraduate students along with 4 different treatments in a replicated latin square design. The treatments included reinforcement of incompatible behavior, time out from reinforcement, drug therapy and electric shock and the treatments were described as they were applied to children with problem behaviors. Experiment [exp] 1 developed an assessment device to evaluate treatment acceptability and examined whether treatments were rated as differentially acceptable. Exp 2 replicated the 1st exp and examined whether the severity of the presenting clinical problem influenced ratings of acceptability. Treatments were sharply distinguished in overall acceptability. Reinforcement of incompatible behavior was more acceptable than other treatments which followed, in order, time out from reinforcement, drug therapy and electric shock. Case severity influenced acceptability of alternative treatments with all treatments being rated as more acceptable with more severe cases. The strength of case severity was relatively small in relation to the different treatment conditions themselves which accounted for large portions of variance.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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