Clinical Trial: Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Decreasing Destructive Behavior
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning
Brief Summary:
Destructive behavior represents a comorbid condition of developmental disability for which risk increases with intellectual disability severity, communication deficits, and co-occurring autism spectrum disorder.Destructive behavior, such as self-injurious behavior and aggression, causes harm to the child and others and increases the risk for institutionalization, social isolation, physical restraint, medication overuse, and abuse.Clinicians have used functional analyses to identify the variables that reinforce…
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